Novinger, Missouri.
Typical home $174,347 (+6.3% in a year). Kirksville, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$285 (+45%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,289 +6%
- $164,058$174,347 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $32,144 -16%
- $206,491$174,347 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.
- Novinger$915
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Novinger, MO rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Novinger, Adair County, Missouri
Novinger is a city of 383 people in Adair County. Unemployment in Adair County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Adair 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Novinger is a very small city in Adair County, Missouri, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are typically worth less than in much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, in restaurants and hotels, or in manufacturing. Few people work from home. Across Adair County, the largest workplaces include A T Still University of Health Sciences, Kraft Heinz Food Company and Truman State University. Unemployment in the county is slightly lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Spring Creek, a river, runs in or beside town. Thousand Hills State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Beyond that, a number of other creeks and rivers, such as Bee Branch and Floyd Creek, lie a longer drive away.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 4%work from home
What people in Adair County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Adair County had 9,338 jobs in 2025, 3.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 19 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kirksville weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Adair County
- A T Still University of Health SciencesUniversity or college1,443
- Kraft Heinz Food CompanyProcessed meats manufacturing769
- Truman State UniversityUniversity or college655
- Kirksville R-iii SchoolsSchool district348FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters299
- Northeast Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital239FTE
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores232
- Western's SmokehouseBoxed meat produced from purchased carcasses140
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,750 people in all across the county; Novinger has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Novinger’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Adair County and the Kirksville, MO metro.
Novinger home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Novinger$174,347
- 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 Novinger address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Novinger — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.