Walker, Missouri.
Typical home $215,515 (+7.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$431 (+62%) since Feb 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $14,759 +7%
- $200,756$215,515 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.
- Walker$1,131
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Walker, MO rose 7.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Walker, Vernon County, Missouri
Walker is a city of 199 people in 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 people in Vernon County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Walker is a very small city in Vernon County, Missouri, where residents tend to be older than in most places and home values sit close to what is typical for the region. Winters are cold, with snow on only a few days and little of it by northern standards, and summers turn hot. Rain and melted snow arrive in fair amounts across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Vernon County, some of the largest workplaces are 3M Company, Nevada R-V Schools and Nevada Regional Medical Center. Unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year earlier, and the county has added jobs. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree, and a typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. The land around Walker is cut by rivers and creeks, and the Marais des Cygnes River, the Marmaton River and the Little Osage River are each a short drive away. For history, Osage Village State Historic Site and the Carrington Osage Village Site, an archaeological site, are both a short drive away. Fort Scott National Historic Site is a longer drive away.
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- 1%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Vernon County 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 89° and lows near 68°. About 6 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Nevada Wtp weather station, 9 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; Walker has one 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Walker’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 Vernon County.
Walker home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Walker$215,515
- 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.
Zip codes with a Walker address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Walker — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.