Weston, Missouri.
Typical home $378,791 (+2.9% in a year). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,087 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,663 +3%
- $368,128$378,791 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $83,396 +28%
- $295,395$378,791 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.
- Weston$1,988
- 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 Weston, MO rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Weston, Platte County, Missouri
Weston is a city of 1,756 people in Platte County. Half its households earn more than $88,750 a year and half less, against $96,227 across Platte County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Platte County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Weston is a small city in Platte County, Missouri, with a population that sits well below that of the larger towns around Kansas City. Residents tend to be somewhat older than in many places, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a four-year degree is common among adults. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow fall at a moderate rate across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, transport and warehousing, and shops. Across Platte County, some of the largest workplaces are Park Hill Schools, Park University and Saint Lukes North Hospital. The typical commute is fairly long, and only a small share of people work from home. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. Weston Bend State Park is a protected area in or beside town, and Bee Creek and Bear Creek, both small waterways, run in or beside town as well. A short drive away, Bean Lake offers a lake to visit. For a longer outing, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 762households
- 40%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Platte County had 48,369 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 19 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Leavenworth weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Platte County
- Park Hill SchoolsSchool district1,862FTE
- Custom Truck One Source - Kansas CityCranes, construction-type, manufacturing1,060
- Park UniversityUniversity or college1,055
- Saint Lukes North HospitalGeneral hospital743FTE
- Capital Electric Line BuildersElectric power transmission line and tower construction674
- Platte Co. R-iii SchoolsSchool district620FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters493
- CogentIndustrial equipment and machinery repair and maintenance services482
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 135 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,172 people in all across the county; Weston has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Weston’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 Platte County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Weston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Weston$378,791
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Weston9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Weston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Weston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.