Wayland, Missouri.
Typical home $209,357 (+18.4% in a year). Fort Madison-Keokuk, IA-IL-MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$487 (+80%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $32,503 +18%
- $176,854$209,357 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.
- Wayland$1,099
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Wayland, MO rose 18.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wayland, Clark County, Missouri
Wayland is a city of 408 people in Clark County. Unemployment in Clark County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clark County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wayland is a very small city in Clark County, in the northeast corner of Missouri. Homes here are modest in price, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall in fair amounts through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops and in the building trades. Across Clark County, the largest workplaces include the Clark CO. R-I Schools, Gregory Container and Industrial Opportunities. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Many residents spend a fair stretch of time commuting to work.
Things to do. The Iliniwek Village State Historic Site is a protected area in or beside town. A short drive away, the Des Moines River and the Fox River offer places to be near the water, and Fort Johnson is a short drive away as well. For a longer outing, Nauvoo House is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 2%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
What people in Clark County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clark County had 1,383 jobs in 2025, 2.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 67°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Keokuk Lock Dam weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clark County
- Clark Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district132FTE
- Gregory ContainerAerosol cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing55
- Industrial OpportunitiesSheltered workshops37
- Dadant & Sons Inc Candle FactoryApplicators, wood, manufacturing34
- M&K Employee ServicesProfessional employer organizations24
- Prairieland FSAgricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 172 people in all across the county; Wayland has none 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
- Strong windVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wayland’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 Clark County and the Fort Madison-Keokuk, IA-IL-MO metro.
Wayland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wayland$209,357
- 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 Wayland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wayland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.