Slater, Missouri.
Typical home $148,264 (+3.3% in a year). Marshall, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$126 (+19%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $4,726 +3%
- $143,538$148,264 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.
- Slater$778
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Slater, MO rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Slater, Saline County, Missouri
Slater is a city of 1,834 people in Saline County. Unemployment in Saline County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Saline County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Slater is a small city in Saline County, Missouri, where a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in most of the country. Homes here are valued well below what is typical nationally, and household incomes across Saline County sit below the national middle. Very few people work from home.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Slater are Slater Schools and Filtration Slater IGFG, which makes industrial and commercial fan blowers and air purification equipment, along with Filtration Slater PMBU, which makes unlaminated plastic film and sheet. Across Saline County, unemployment is close to where it stood a year ago, and there are slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Arrow Rock State Historic Site, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is the Chariton River. Van Meter State Park is a longer drive, as is Fort Orleans. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
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- 759households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in Saline County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Saline County had 8,832 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 8 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marshall weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Slater
- Filtration Slater IGFGIndustrial and comemerical fan blower and air purification equipment manufacturing350
- Slater SchoolsSchool district61FTE
- Filtration Slater PMBUUnlaminated plastics film and sheet manufacture50
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 400 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Slater’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 Saline County and the Marshall, MO metro.
Slater home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Slater$148,264
- 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.
- Slater8
Zip codes with a Slater address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Slater — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.