Olean, Missouri.
Typical home $254,843 (+5.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$85 (+7%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $12,329 +5%
- $242,514$254,843 since Sep 2025
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.
- Olean$1,338
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Olean, MO rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Olean, Miller County, Missouri
Olean is a town of 114 people in Miller County. Unemployment in Miller County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Miller County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Olean is a very small town in Miller County, in central Missouri, where neighbors tend to know one another. Winters are cold, with the coolest weather in January, and summers are hot, peaking in July. Rain and melted snow fall fairly often across the year, so the seasons are on the wet side.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, or in manufacturing. Few adults hold a four-year degree, so work here leans toward skilled and hands-on jobs.
Things to do. Brush Creek, a river a short drive away, is one of the nearer places for time outdoors. Lake of the Ozarks, a reservoir a longer drive away, is one of the best known spots in the region. Bridal Cave, a tourist attraction also a longer drive off, offers a different kind of outing.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
What people in Miller County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Miller County had 7,806 jobs in 2025, 2.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eldon weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Miller County
- Quaker Window Co. - EldonMetal window and door manufacturing434
- Adient USAutomobile seat frames, metal, manufacturing365
- Eldon R-I SchoolsSchool district205FTE
- School of the OsageSchool district190FTE
- Opies TransportSpecialized freight trucking, long-distance140
- WalmartDiscount department stores101
- Iberia R-V SchoolsSchool district73FTE
- StoneBridge Lake OzarkSkilled nursing facilities71
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,379 people in all across the county; Olean has none of its own. School districts come 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Olean’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 Miller County.
Olean home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Olean$254,843
- 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 Olean address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Olean — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.