Montrose, Missouri.
Typical home $300,601 (+5.6% in a year). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$983 (+165%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,981 +6%
- $284,620$300,601 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $80,085 +36%
- $220,516$300,601 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Montrose$1,578
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Montrose, MO rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Montrose, Henry County, Missouri
Montrose is a city of 383 people in Henry County. Half its households earn more than $61,375 a year and half less, against $57,926 across Henry County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Henry County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Henry County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Montrose is a very small city in Henry County, Missouri, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and homes are valued well above what many small Missouri towns see. Winters are cold, with highs near freezing in January and some snow each year, while July brings hot days and the year as a whole is fairly wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, the building trades and manufacturing. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a long one, so many drive some distance to their jobs. Across Henry County, the largest workplaces include Golden Valley Memorial Hospital, Walmart and Clinton Schools, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The area around Montrose is a country of creeks and rivers. Granddaddy Creek and Brushy Creek are both a short drive away, and Bear Creek is close as well, which makes them handy for a walk along the water or a quiet afternoon outdoors. For a bigger river, the Marais des Cygnes River is a longer drive away.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Henry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Henry County had 8,289 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 10 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Appleton City weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Henry County
- Golden Valley Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital670FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters290
- Compass Health NetworkPsychiatric convalescent homes or hospitals254
- Transcontinental Packaging ClintonPrint shops, flexographic250
- Clinton SchoolsSchool district239FTE
- White River Marine Group Nitro PlantBoat yards237
- Schreiber FoodsCheese manufacturing236
- Wesco DistributionDistribution equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers194
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,198 people in all across the county; Montrose has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Montrose’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Henry County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Montrose home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Montrose$300,601
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Montrose address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Montrose — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Montrose
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64788 | Urich | 1,435 | — | $278,883 |
| 64770 | Montrose | 1,151 | — | $283,207 |