Parnell, Missouri.
Typical home $239,201 (+8.0% in a year). Maryville, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$704 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,632 +8%
- $221,568$239,201 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,020 +36%
- $176,181$239,201 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.
- Parnell$1,256
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Parnell, MO rose 8.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Parnell, Nodaway County, Missouri
Parnell is a city of 135 people in Nodaway County. Unemployment in Nodaway County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 3.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Nodaway 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Parnell is a very small city in Nodaway County, in the northwest corner of Missouri. Homes here are typically worth a good deal less than the national figure, and winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January and warm summers peaking in July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and restaurants and hotels. Across Nodaway County, some of the largest workplaces are Northwest Missouri State University, Mosaic Medical Center - Maryville and Kawasaki Motors Mfg. Corp. USA Maryville, which makes gasoline engines. Most people drive a fair way to get to work, and very few work from home.
Things to do. Brushy Creek runs in or beside town, a creek for a quiet walk along the water. A longer drive away is the Missouri State Arboretum, a botanical garden, and the Nodaway River, one of several rivers and creeks in the surrounding countryside.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 24 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Nodaway County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nodaway County had 8,134 jobs in 2025, 3.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 67°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grant City 5WSW weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nodaway County
- Kawasaki Motors Mfg. Corp. USA MaryvilleGasoline engines manufacturing911
- Northwest Missouri State UniversityUniversity or college794
- Mosaic Medical Center - MaryvilleGeneral hospital383FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters275
- Maryville R-II SchoolsSchool district251FTE
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores189
- Federal-Mogul MaryvilleAutomotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing134
- Laclede Chain Manufacturing Co. MaryvilleChain, welded, made from purchased wire101
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,480 people in all across the county; Parnell has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Parnell’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 Nodaway County and the Maryville, MO metro.
Parnell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Parnell$239,201
- 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 Parnell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Parnell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Parnell
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64475 | Parnell | 403 | — | $222,007 |
| 64453 | Gentry | 140 | — | $155,798 |