Trenton, Missouri.
Typical home $113,379 (+5.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$334 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,531 +5%
- $107,848$113,379 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,557 +21%
- $93,822$113,379 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.
- Trenton$595
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Trenton, MO rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Trenton, Grundy County, Missouri
Trenton is a city of 5,609 people in Grundy County. Half its households earn more than $50,015 a year and half less, against $51,975 across Grundy County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Grundy County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Trenton is a small city and the seat of Grundy County, Missouri. Residents tend to be somewhat older than in many places, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes are a little below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Typical home values are modest, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good number. North Central Missouri College, Trenton R-IX Schools and Wright Memorial Hospital are among the largest workplaces in town. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home. Across Grundy County, unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Crowder State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the best-known spot nearby. Wolf Creek and Sugar Creek, both rivers, are also a short drive away, and Cat Creek, another river, is a longer drive. Winters are cold, with snow through the season, and summers turn warm, so the outdoors suits spring and fall best.
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- 2,313households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 12 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grundy County had 2,832 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°. About 17 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Trenton weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Trenton
- North Central Missouri CollegeTwo-year college207
- Trenton R-IX SchoolsSchool district165FTE
- Nestle ProfessionalMeat products canning made from purchased carcasses160
- Wright Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital139FTE
- Modine Manufacturing Company - TrentonFans, electric cooling, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing136
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores108
- Preferred Family HealthcareResidential mental health & substance abuse facilities73
- First Student29
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 730 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Hailrelatively high in parts of TrentonRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of TrentonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Trenton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Grundy County.
Trenton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Trenton$113,379
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Trenton listings — the market is heating up.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Trenton19.29%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Trenton29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Trenton9
Zip codes with a Trenton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Trenton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.