Norborne, Missouri.
Typical home $181,280 (+6.8% in a year). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$572 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,600 +7%
- $169,680$181,280 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,244 +39%
- $130,036$181,280 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.
- Norborne$951
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Norborne, MO rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Norborne, Carroll County, Missouri
Norborne is a city of 634 people in Carroll County. Half its households earn more than $65,577 a year and half less, against $62,154 across Carroll County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Carroll County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Carroll 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Norborne is a small city in Carroll County, Missouri, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Residents tend to be somewhat older than in many places, and incomes sit a little above the county's. Typical home values are modest, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades, and farming also employing many. Across Carroll County, the largest workplaces include Carroll County Hospital, Carrollton R-vii Schools and Good People MOV, a hydroponic crop farm. Commutes are fairly long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Tabo Creek and Cottonwood Creek are both a short drive away, and make pleasant spots for a walk along the water. Farther out, Van Meter State Park is a protected area, and the Battle of Lexington State Historic Site is a museum, both a longer drive away. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
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- 318households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Carroll County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carroll County had 2,653 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 68°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waverly weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carroll County
- Carroll County HospitalCritical access hospital191FTE
- Carrollton R-vii SchoolsSchool district117FTE
- Good People MOV2, LLC - CarrolltonHydroponic crop farming98
- United Medical InvestorsConvalescent homes or convalescent hospitals74
- Michels PipelineBends, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe70
- Wood Shed Lumber & Hardware SupplyHardware stores60
- Show Me EthanolDenatured alcohol manufacturing49
- Norborne R-viii SchoolsSchool district44FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 696 people in all across the county; Norborne 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Norborne’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 Carroll County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Norborne home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Norborne$181,280
- 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 Norborne address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Norborne — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.