Oran, Missouri.
Typical home $156,865 (+3.1% in a year). Sikeston, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$363 (+79%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,671 +3%
- $152,194$156,865 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $13,756 +10%
- $143,109$156,865 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.
- Oran$823
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 38 years.
Typical home values in Oran, MO rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oran, Scott County, Missouri
Oran is a city of 1,195 people in Scott County. Half its households earn more than $65,200 a year and half less, against $62,782 across Scott County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Scott County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oran is a small city in Scott County, Missouri, and a good deal smaller than most places people picture when they think of a city. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and household incomes sit a little above the county's, though a noticeable part of the town lives below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January highs a few degrees above freezing and lows well below it, and summers turn hot by July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Scott County, some of the largest workplaces are Magnum Ice Cream Company, Missouri Delta Medical Center and Sikeston R Schools. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has held about steady. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many places, and a typical commute takes a fairly short time.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Caney Creek, Little River and the Whitewater River are all rivers a short drive away. Farther out, Trail of Tears State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Horseshoe Lake is a lake that also takes a longer drive to reach.
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- 414households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Scott County had 16,184 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Scott County
- Magnum Ice Cream CompanyIce cream manufacturing750
- Missouri Delta Medical CenterGeneral hospital708FTE
- Orgill Sikeston Distribution CenterHardware merchant wholesalers553
- Sikeston R-6 SchoolsSchool district500FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters371
- Havco Wood ProductsFlooring, wood, manufacturing247
- Do it BestGeneral warehousing and storage168
- FedExCourier and express delivery services161
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 47 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,412 people in all across the county; Oran has two 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oran’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 Scott County and the Sikeston, MO metro.
Oran home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oran$156,865
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Oran7
Zip codes with a Oran address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oran — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.