Wellington, Missouri.
Typical home $220,253 (+3.0% in a year). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$671 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,513 +3%
- $213,739$220,253 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,608 +28%
- $171,645$220,253 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.
- Wellington$1,156
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Wellington, MO rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wellington, Lafayette County, Missouri
Wellington is a city of 738 people in Lafayette County. Half its households earn more than $67,045 a year and half less, against $80,612 across Lafayette County. Unemployment in Lafayette County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lafayette 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wellington is a small city in Lafayette County, Missouri, with a population smaller than most towns its age. Household incomes run below the county's, and homes here are priced at a level many buyers would find within reach. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm; rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Lafayette County, the largest workplaces include Odessa R-VII Schools, Lafayette Regional Health Center and Milbank Manufacturing in Concordia. Jobs across the county slipped a little last year, and the typical trip to work is a long one, so few people work from home.
Things to do. Sni-A-Bar Creek runs in or beside town, and Rollins Creek, Fire Prairie Creek and Fishing River are each a short drive away for time along the water. The Battle of Lexington State Historic Site, a museum of the Civil War battle, is also a short drive. For a bigger outing, Arrowhead Stadium and Kauffman Stadium are a longer drive away.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 38 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Lafayette County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lafayette County had 8,754 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Richmond 3S weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lafayette County
- Odessa R-vii SchoolsSchool district280FTE
- Milbank Manufacturing - ConcordiaBoxes, light gauge metal, manufacturing260
- Tyson DeliMeat processed from carcasses241
- Advanced IndustriesContainers, light gauge metal, manufacturing179
- Lafayette Regional Health CenterCritical access hospital169FTE
- John Knox Village East & Meyer Care CenterNursing homes145
- Lexington R-V SchoolsSchool district143FTE
- Lafayette Co. C-1 SchoolsSchool district121FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,846 people in all across the county; Wellington has one of its own. School districts come 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wellington’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 Lafayette County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Wellington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wellington$220,253
- 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 Wellington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wellington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.