New Cambria, Missouri.
Typical home $256,952 (+6.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$900 (+201%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,918 +6%
- $242,034$256,952 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $84,221 +49%
- $172,730$256,952 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.
- New Cambria$1,349
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in New Cambria, MO rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in New Cambria, Macon County, Missouri
New Cambria is a city of 153 people in Macon County. Half its households earn more than $65,417 a year and half less, against $62,357 across Macon County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Macon County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Macon County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. New Cambria is a very small city in Macon County, Missouri, where everyone is likely to know one another by sight. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and homes here are valued at a level that many buyers from larger cities would find modest. Winters are cold, with January the chilliest month, and summers turn properly hot by July. Rain and melted snow fall steadily across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing also employing many. Across Macon County, some of the largest workplaces are Conagra Brands, which makes frozen specialty foods, Samaritan Memorial Hospital, and Macon CO. R-I Schools, the county school district. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. The best-known place nearby is the Walt Disney Hometown Museum, a museum that is a longer drive away. Also a longer drive away are Long Branch State Park and Pershing State Park, both protected areas with room for walking and time outdoors. Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge, another protected area, is a longer drive as well.
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- 10%below the poverty line
- 10%work from home
What people in Macon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Macon County had 4,823 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Long Branch Rsvr weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Macon County
- Conagra BrandsFrozen specialty food manufacturing364
- Samaritan Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital158FTE
- Macon Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district134FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores116
- Macon Health Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities72
- La Plata R-II SchoolsSchool district59FTE
- Sydenstricker Nobbe PartnersAgricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers54
- POET biorefining- MaconEthanol, nonpotable, manufacturing47
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 810 people in all across the county; New Cambria has one 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
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in New Cambria’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 Macon County.
New Cambria home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- New Cambria$256,952
- 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.
Zip codes with a New Cambria address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls New Cambria — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.