Portland, Missouri.
Typical home $165,158 (-1.6% in a year). Jefferson City, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$112 (+15%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $2,752 -2%
- $167,910$165,158 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.
- Portland$867
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Portland, MO fell 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Portland, Callaway County, Missouri
The Census does not count Portland on its own, so the figures here are Callaway County's. Half the county's households earn more than $74,176 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Callaway County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Callaway County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Portland is a small town in Callaway County, Missouri, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, with some snow most years, and summers are hot. Rain and melted snow arrive in good measure through the year, and the land is laced with creeks and streams.
Work. Across Callaway County, unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs dipped slightly over the past year. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government offices, or in factories. Few people work from home, and most people travel to their jobs.
Things to do. Research Cave lies in or beside town and is an archaeological site worth a visit. Graham Cave State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away, as is the National Churchill Museum, a museum that suits a day out.
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- 16,485households
- 39.4median age
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Callaway County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Callaway County had 14,759 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 19 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fulton weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Callaway County
- FultonGeneral warehousing and storage570
- William Woods UniversityUniversity or college359
- Avail Infrastructure SolutionsBus bar structures, switchgear-type, manufacturing255
- Fulton 58 SchoolsSchool district255FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters233
- Westminster CollegeUniversity or college220
- North Callaway Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district160FTE
- South Callaway Co. R-II SchoolsSchool district137FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,055 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Callaway County, 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 Callaway County and the Jefferson City, MO metro.
Portland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Portland$165,158
- 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 Portland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Portland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.