Plattsburg, Missouri.
Typical home $291,298 (+6.9% in a year). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$908 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,865 +7%
- $272,433$291,298 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,473 +34%
- $217,825$291,298 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.
- Plattsburg$1,529
- 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 Plattsburg, MO rose 6.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Plattsburg, Clinton County, Missouri
Plattsburg is a city of 2,222 people in Clinton County. Half its households earn more than $63,423 a year and half less, against $70,627 across Clinton County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Clinton County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 10.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in restaurants and hotels, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Plattsburg is a small city and the county seat of Clinton County in northwest Missouri. Household incomes here run below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than you might expect in a place this size. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and winters are cold while summers turn quite warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in shops. Across Clinton County, some of the largest workplaces are the school districts, such as Cameron R-I Schools and Lathrop R-II Schools, along with Black & Veatch. Unemployment across the county has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Horse Fork, a river in or beside town, is the closest water to explore, and Shoal Creek is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Wallace State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Smithville Lake is a reservoir that is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,029households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clinton County had 4,932 jobs in 2025, 10.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 68°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Smithville Lake weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clinton County
- Cameron R-I SchoolsSchool district235FTE
- Black & VeatchAlternative energy structure construction222
- Lathrop R-II SchoolsSchool district134FTE
- East Buchanan Co. C-1 SchoolsSchool district93FTE
- Clinton Co. R-iii SchoolsSchool district89FTE
- Paradise LockerMeats fresh, chilled or frozen, produced in slaughtering plants47
- Decker Construction ServicesDistribution line, sewer and water, construction45
- Redgate DisposalGarbage collection services37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 351 people in all across the county; Plattsburg has one 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Plattsburg’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 Clinton County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Plattsburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Plattsburg$291,298
- 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.
- Plattsburg16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Plattsburg5
Zip codes with a Plattsburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plattsburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.