Pilot Grove, Missouri.
Typical home $234,997 (-0.1% in a year). Columbia, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $33 (-3%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $179 -0%
- $235,176$234,997 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.
- Pilot Grove$1,233
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Pilot Grove, MO fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pilot Grove, Cooper County, Missouri
Pilot Grove is a city of 665 people in Cooper County. Half its households earn more than $73,977 a year and half less, against $70,625 across Cooper County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Cooper County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 4.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pilot Grove is a very small city in Cooper County, Missouri, and most households here own the place they live in. Incomes run a little above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a town this size. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers turn hot, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, banks, insurance and property, and shops. Across Cooper County, some of the largest workplaces are Kawasaki Motor MFG. Corp. U.S.A, which makes gasoline engines, Walmart, and Boonville R-I Schools. Commutes are on the long side, and few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the Blackwater River and Brush Creek are both a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Arrow Rock State Historic Site, a protected historic area, and to Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge, a protected area along the Missouri River.
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- 283households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cooper County had 5,093 jobs in 2025, 4.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 70°. About 13 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Boonville weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cooper County
- Kawasaki Motor MFG. Corp. U.S.AGasoline engines manufacturing349
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters259
- Boonville R-I SchoolsSchool district247FTE
- HPMP Boonville FacilityMechanical rubber goods manufacturing198
- First Student55
- Ashley Manor Health & RehabilitationHomes for the elderly with nursing care54
- Pilot Grove C-4 SchoolsSchool district54FTE
- Boonville Valley HopeAlcoholism rehabilitation hospitals51
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,120 people in all across the county; Pilot Grove 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
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold 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 Pilot Grove’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Cooper County and the Columbia, MO metro.
Pilot Grove home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pilot Grove$234,997
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pilot Grove6
Zip codes with a Pilot Grove address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pilot Grove — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.