Independence, MO · Jackson County
Salem East
Built around 1974 · typically 1,427 sq ft above grade · 28 sales in twelve months
Salem East has an Independence address but sits outside any city limit, and it kept adding plats long after the 1970s - a fifteenth was recorded in 2008.
The market here, last twelve months
Half of the homes that sold went under contract within 19 days. Cumulative days on market runs higher at 28, the gap indicating homes that were relisted rather than selling on the first attempt. The median sale closed at 100.0% of asking - at list. 43% closed at or above the original list price, which is the better measure of how much room a buyer actually has.
Aggregated from Heartland MLS closed sales, twelve months to July 2026. Individual sale prices are not shown - Kansas and Missouri are non-disclosure states and MLS rules do not permit their public display. Ask for the full report.
The story of Salem Easthow it came to be
The subdivision was still being extended into the 2000s: a twelfth plat of 19 lots in 2000, a thirteenth of 21 lots in 2003, a fourteenth of 39 lots in 2005 and a fifteenth of two lots in 2008. source
Two smaller filings came first - a fifteen-lot plat in 1997 and a two-lot replat of lots 124 and 125 in 1998. source
What makes it distinctiveplanning, architecture and layout
The county’s city-boundary layer places Salem East outside every municipality, in unincorporated Jackson County, despite the Independence mailing address. source
The whole of it falls in the Fort Osage school district; the county’s district layer returns no other district anywhere across the subdivision. source
What the houses are likemedian built 1974
The median home sold here was built in 1974. Most of what sells was built between 1969 and 2005. 86% of sales included finished basement space beyond the above-grade footprint - which matters here, because square footage quoted above grade can understate a house considerably.
By property type: Single Family (28).
Addresses here fall in ZIP 64056, 64058.
Compared with Independence as a wholehow this neighborhood differs
| Salem East | Independence | |
|---|---|---|
| Median sale price | $264,250 | $219,000 |
| Median $/sq ft | $199 | $179 |
| Median days on market | 19 | 17 |
| Median year built | 1974 | 1962 |
| Finished basement | 86% | 48% |
Both columns are medians over the same twelve months, so they are directly comparable.
What this means if you are buying in Salem Eastspecific to this neighborhood
Two things follow from where the lines run. Because the plats are in unincorporated Jackson County and not in Independence, it is the county that permits, inspects and enforces code, and the city services a buyer assumes come attached to an Independence address are worth confirming one by one rather than assuming - trash, water, sewer and street maintenance especially. And because plats numbered up to a fifteenth were still being recorded as late as 2008, houses under this one subdivision name span decades; ask which plat a parcel came from before treating any Salem East sale as a comparable.
What to check in homes of this agemid-century stock
With a median year built of 1974, most homes here are mid-century stock. The band here runs 1969 to 2005, so not every house will match the median. None of the following says anything about a specific house - they are the questions worth asking of any home of this age.
- Aluminum branch wiring appeared in homes built roughly 1965-1973 and is a specific thing to ask an inspector to look for.
- Original HVAC from this era is long past its service life, so the question is usually when it was last replaced rather than whether.
- The pre-1978 lead-paint disclosure applies to the earlier part of this range (40 CFR 745.110).
What sold, in more detailsizes, bedroom mix and timing
Of the 28 homes sold, 1 were 2-bed, 20 were 3-bed, 5 were 4-bed, 2 were 5-bed.
Above-grade size ranged from about 1,050 to 2,219 sq ft across the middle 80% of sales, so the median alone understates how much variation there is.
Closings cluster in July, September and August, with 61% of the year's sales closing between April and September. Because closing typically follows the contract by a month or more, listing activity runs earlier than that.
Other neighborhoods in Independence4 more with their own data
- Far View Heights 76 sales
- Glendale Gardens 31 sales
- Sycamore Hills 27 sales
- Blue Mills 26 sales
Thinking about Salem East?
These numbers describe what has sold. What they cannot tell you is which street, which floor plan, or what your own house would fetch here. Ask me about Salem East, or see the wider Independence market.