Pleasant Valley, Missouri.
Typical home $260,390 (+3.0% in a year), asking rent $1,550 . Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$769 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,702 +3%
- $252,688$260,390 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,529 +28%
- $203,860$260,390 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.
- Pleasant Valley$1,367
- 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 Pleasant Valley, MO rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pleasant Valley, Clay County, Missouri
Pleasant Valley is a city of 2,743 people in Clay County. Half its households earn more than $75,682 a year and half less, against $88,468 across Clay County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Clay County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clay 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pleasant Valley is a small city in Clay County, Missouri. Household incomes run below the county's, and few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with highs near freezing in January and a fair amount of snow, while summers turn hot, with July highs near the top of the thermometer's usual range for the Midwest. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate yearly amount.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, shops and manufacturing also employing a good number. Some of the largest workplaces in town are trades and repair businesses, including Central Power Systems & Services, Southern Home Services and Havens Construction Company. Commutes are of a middling length, and a small group of residents work from home.
Things to do. Worlds of Fun, an amusement park, and Patriot, a tourist attraction, are in or beside town. A short drive away are the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum and the Kansas River. For a day out in Kansas City, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Arrowhead Stadium are both a longer drive away.
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- 1,150households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Clay County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clay County had 110,830 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 72°. About 11 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kansas City Downtown Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pleasant Valley
- Central Power Systems & ServicesIndustrial equipment and machinery repair and maintenance services99
- Southern Home ServicesPlumbing, heating, and air-conditioning contractors60
- TheUtility line, construction59
- KAW ServicesAutomotive repair and replacement shops, general40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 258 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pleasant Valley’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Clay County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Pleasant Valley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pleasant Valley$260,390
- 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.
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.
- Pleasant Valley7
Zip codes with a Pleasant Valley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pleasant Valley — 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.