Salisbury, Missouri.
Typical home $184,395 (+19.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$467 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $30,433 +20%
- $153,962$184,395 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $14,626 +9%
- $169,769$184,395 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.
- Salisbury$968
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 42 years.
Typical home values in Salisbury, MO rose 19.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Salisbury, Chariton County, Missouri
Salisbury is a city of 1,563 people in Chariton County. Half its households earn more than $65,329 a year and half less, against $71,520 across Chariton County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Chariton County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Salisbury is a small city in Chariton County, Missouri, with a younger population than many small towns, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are hot in July, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in transport, warehouses and utilities, in shops, or in other services. Across Chariton County, the largest workplaces include Salisbury R-IV Schools and Hurtt Fabricating, a fabricated structural metal manufacturer. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and a typical commute is a modest one.
Things to do. Several small waterways lie a short drive away, including Bee Branch and Mussel Fork, which suit a quiet afternoon outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Fort Orleans, a historic fort, and to Arrow Rock State Historic Site, a protected area with a long history. The Chariton River is also a longer drive away.
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- 591households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chariton County had 1,817 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 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Salisbury weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chariton County
- Salisbury R-IV SchoolsSchool district87FTE
- Hurtt FabricatingFabricated structural metal manufacturing63
- Brunswick R-II SchoolsSchool district49FTE
- Northwestern R-I SchoolsSchool district43FTE
- Keytesville R-iii SchoolsSchool district27FTE
- Sydenstricker Nobbe PartnersAgricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 87 people in all across the county; Salisbury has two 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Salisbury’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 Chariton County.
Salisbury home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Salisbury$184,395
- 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.
- Salisbury4
Zip codes with a Salisbury address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Salisbury — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.