Platte Woods, Missouri.
Typical home $388,989 (+3.2% in a year). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,122 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,931 +3%
- $377,058$388,989 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $87,135 +29%
- $301,854$388,989 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.
- Platte Woods$2,042
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Platte Woods, MO rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Platte Woods, Platte County, Missouri
Platte Woods is a city of 394 people in Platte County. Half its households earn more than $131,458 a year and half less, against $96,227 across Platte County; 1% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Platte County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Platte County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Platte Woods is a very small city in Platte County, Missouri, with a population among the smallest of any town its kind of page covers. Households here have incomes well above the county's, very few people live below the poverty line, and the typical home is valued higher than in many towns of its size. Residents tend to be of middle age, and the commute to work is a fairly short one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops and in manufacturing. Across Platte County, the largest workplaces include Park Hill Schools, Park University and Saint Lukes North Hospital. Unemployment in the county has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. The Kansas River is a short drive away, and so is the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, a theatre for concerts and stage shows. A longer drive brings you to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Winters here are cold, with some snow, and summers are warm, so the river and the outdoors suit the milder seasons best.
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- 1%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Platte County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Platte County had 48,369 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 18 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kansas City International Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Platte County
- Park Hill SchoolsSchool district1,862FTE
- Custom Truck One Source - Kansas CityCranes, construction-type, manufacturing1,060
- Park UniversityUniversity or college1,055
- Saint Lukes North HospitalGeneral hospital743FTE
- Capital Electric Line BuildersElectric power transmission line and tower construction674
- Platte Co. R-iii SchoolsSchool district620FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters493
- CogentIndustrial equipment and machinery repair and maintenance services482
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 135 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,172 people in all across the county; Platte Woods has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Platte Woods’ 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 Platte County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Platte Woods home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Platte Woods$388,989
- 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 Platte Woods address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Platte Woods — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.