Peculiar, Missouri.
Typical home $360,704 (+3.0% in a year), asking rent $1,415 . Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,034 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,526 +3%
- $350,178$360,704 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,809 +23%
- $293,895$360,704 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.
- Peculiar$1,893
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Peculiar, MO rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Peculiar, Cass County, Missouri
Peculiar is a city of 5,621 people in Cass County. Half its households earn more than $94,519 a year and half less, against $87,535 across Cass County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Cass County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Peculiar is a city in Cass County, Missouri, where most homes are lived in by their owners and residents are younger than in many American towns. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than in much of the country. Winters are cold and somewhat snowy, summers are hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, banks, insurance and property, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Cass County, some of the largest workplaces are the Raymore-Peculiar R-II Schools, Walmart and Chewy. Many people work from home, and the typical commute is of moderate length.
Things to do. Wolf Creek, a river, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and Kauffman Stadium, a stadium. Those with an interest in history or art will find a good deal to see among them.
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- 1,995households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 25%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cass County had 31,431 jobs in 2025, 2.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 17 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pleasant Hill Weather Office weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cass County
- Urban OutfittersCleaners, drycleaning and laundry service1,125
- Raymore-peculiar R-II SchoolsSchool district819FTE
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage816
- ChewyGeneral warehousing and storage756
- Belton 124 SchoolsSchool district549FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters377
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters363
- Southern Glazers Wine and SpiritsWine and distiller alcoholic beverage merchant wholesalers348
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 62 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,508 people in all across the county; Peculiar has two 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Peculiar’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 Cass County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Peculiar home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Peculiar$360,704
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Peculiar listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Peculiar32.99%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Peculiar48
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Peculiar18
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Peculiar address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Peculiar — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.