Pilot Knob, Missouri.
Typical home $135,358 (+9.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$447 (+169%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,162 +9%
- $124,196$135,358 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,068 +35%
- $100,291$135,358 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.
- Pilot Knob$710
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Pilot Knob, MO rose 9.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pilot Knob, Iron County, Missouri
Pilot Knob is a city of 671 people in Iron County. Half its households earn more than $44,500 a year and half less, against $48,850 across Iron County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Iron County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Iron 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pilot Knob is a very small city in the Missouri hills, in Iron County, and it is known for the Civil War battle fought here in 1864. Incomes in town run below the county's, and the typical home is modestly priced. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are hot, with a fair amount of rain across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops also employing many. Across Iron County, the largest workplaces include Arcadia Valley R-II Schools, Iron County Hospital and Belleview Investment Group. Jobs across the county have slipped a little over the past year, and unemployment is somewhat lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. The Battle of Pilot Knob State Historic Site, a fort, is in or beside town. A short drive away are Taum Sauk Mountain State Park and Elephant Rocks State Park, both protected areas for walking and taking in the hill country. A longer drive brings you to Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park, a protected area known for its water-carved rock channels.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
What people in Iron County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Iron County had 3,425 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 9 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Farmington weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Iron County
- Arcadia Valley R-II SchoolsSchool district137FTE
- Iron County HospitalCritical access hospital104FTE
- Belleview Investment GroupSkilled nursing facilities86
- Iron Co. C-4 SchoolsSchool district64FTE
- South Iron Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district56FTE
- Belleview R-iii SchoolsSchool district40FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 86 people in all across the county; Pilot Knob has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pilot Knob’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Iron County.
Pilot Knob home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pilot Knob$135,358
- 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 Pilot Knob address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pilot Knob — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.