Sheldon, Missouri.
Typical home $184,168 (+5.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$320 (+50%) since Feb 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $9,302 +5%
- $174,866$184,168 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.
- Sheldon$967
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Sheldon, MO rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sheldon, Vernon County, Missouri
Sheldon is a city of 435 people in Vernon County. Half its households earn more than $41,848 a year and half less, against $52,230 across Vernon County. Unemployment in Vernon County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 6.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sheldon is a very small city in Vernon County, in the farm country of western Missouri. Household incomes here run below the county's, and the typical home is priced modestly. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with highs only a little above freezing in January, and summers are hot. Snowfall is light, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and farming, forestry and mining close behind. Across Vernon County, the largest workplaces include 3M Company, Nevada R-V Schools and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added jobs. Most people drive to work, and the typical commute is a short one, with very few working from home.
Things to do. For history, Fort Scott National Historic Site and the Harry S Truman Birthplace State Historic Site are protected places a longer drive away. Prairie State Park, also a longer drive off, protects open prairie. The Marais des Cygnes River and the Marmaton River are the best-known rivers in the area, and both are a longer drive away as well.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 20 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Vernon County had 7,011 jobs in 2025, 6.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 7 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lamar 7N weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vernon County
- 3M Company662
- Nevada R-V SchoolsSchool district337FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters298
- Nevada Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital234FTE
- Cottey CollegeUniversity or college179
- Heartland Behavioral Hlth SvcsPsychiatric and substance abuse hospitals148
- Archer Daniels Midland Company79
- Medicalodges NevadaSkilled nursing facilities53
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,476 people in all across the county; Sheldon has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Sheldon’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 Vernon County.
Sheldon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sheldon$184,168
- 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.
- Sheldon6
Zip codes with a Sheldon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sheldon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.