Rocheport, Missouri.
Typical home $451,056 (-1.0% in a year). Columbia, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,323 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,583 -1%
- $455,639$451,056 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,947 +20%
- $377,109$451,056 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.
- Rocheport$2,367
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Rocheport, MO fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rocheport, Boone County, Missouri
Rocheport is a city of 201 people in Boone County. Unemployment in Boone County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Boone County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rocheport is a very small river town in Boone County, Missouri, with a population small enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are valued well above what is typical across the country, and a smaller share of people live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are cold, with January highs only a little above freezing and nights well below it, while July brings hot summers. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and professional and business services. Across Boone County, household incomes run higher than in many parts of Missouri. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year. Among the largest workplaces across the county are Columbia 93 Schools, Boone Hospital Center and Shelter Mutual Insurance.
Things to do. Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a short drive away, and several creeks and small rivers, including Bonne Femme Creek and Cave Creek, are close by as well. Farther out, a longer drive reaches Rock Bridge Memorial State Park, another protected area. Faurot Field, a stadium, is also a longer drive away.
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- 10%below the poverty line
What people in Boone County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Boone County had 100,066 jobs in 2025, 1.4% 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 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Boonville weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Boone County
- Equipmentshare.comConstruction machinery and equipment rental or leasing without operator7,523
- Columbia 93 SchoolsSchool district2,904FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,798
- Shelter Mutual InsuranceCorporate offices1,745
- Boone Hospital CenterGeneral hospital1,743FTE
- Emery Sapp & SonsConstruction management, highway, road, street and bridge1,650
- Columbia CollegeUniversity or college878
- Hubbell Power Systems - Centralia OperationHardware, transmission pole and line, manufacturing735
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 153 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 26,762 people in all across the county; Rocheport has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Rocheport’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 Boone County and the Columbia, MO metro.
Rocheport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rocheport$451,056
- 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.
- Rocheport14
Zip codes with a Rocheport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rocheport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.