Riverside, Missouri.
Typical home $470,430 (+3.7% in a year), asking rent $1,994 . Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,318 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,960 +4%
- $453,470$470,430 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $94,522 +25%
- $375,908$470,430 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.
- Riverside$2,469
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Riverside, MO rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Riverside, Platte County, Missouri
Riverside is a city of 4,013 people in Platte County. 42% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 58% are rented. 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 residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Riverside is a small city in Platte County, Missouri, with a younger population than most of the country. Most homes here are rented rather than owned, which is the reverse of the pattern across much of the county. Typical home values and rents are both high, and more people live below the poverty line than is usual in the county, where household incomes run higher than in the town itself.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Some of the largest workplaces in Riverside are Cogent, which repairs and maintains industrial equipment, US Farathane, a plastics manufacturer, and Amazon, in courier and delivery services. Commutes are fairly short, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum a short drive away, and the Kansas River is a short drive away for time by the water. The American Jazz Museum, also a short drive away, is a good stop for music history. Winters here are cold with some snow, and summers are hot, so a museum visit suits either end of the year.
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- 1,627households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What residents 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 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, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Riverside
- CogentIndustrial equipment and machinery repair and maintenance services482
- Velociti MainSystems integration design services, computer461
- US FarathaneDoors and door frames, plastics, manufacturing325
- VenusLogistics309
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services243
- WoodbridgePackaging, foam plastics, manufacturing178
- Lightning LogisticsLocal letter and parcel delivery services as part of intercity courier network108
- Vistar Kansas City105
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,027 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
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Riverside’s 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.
Riverside home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Riverside$470,430
- 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.
- Riverside5
Zip codes with a Riverside address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Riverside — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.