Kansas City, MO · Clay County
Gracemor
Built around 1963 · typically 1,152 sq ft above grade · 36 sales in twelve months
Kansas City spelled it Gracemore, with a final E, on every plat it accepted from 1957 to 1981 - and Clay County’s legal descriptions have since dropped the E.
The market here, last twelve months
Half of the homes that sold went under contract within 10 days. The median sale closed at 100.0% of asking - at list. 72% 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 Gracemorfrom 1957
The city’s plat record runs from a second plat accepted on 25 September 1957 - not recorded in Clay County until 16 October 1959 - through a base plat accepted on 6 March 1959 under ordinance 23621. All of them are spelled Gracemore. source
Fourteen Gracemore plats in all cleared the city: the base plat and every numbered plat from the second to the fifteenth except a thirteenth, which does not appear. Twelve of the fourteen were accepted between 1957 and 1966; the fifteenth did not follow until August 1981. source
Two later filings use the modern spelling and a different name: Gracemor North in December 1997 and Gracemor North Second Plat in June 2002. source
Clay County’s parcel file returns 725 parcels whose legal description names Gracemor, spread across those plats. source
The subdivision sits inside Kansas City and inside the North Kansas City 74 school district. source
What makes it distinctiveplanning, architecture and layout
Clay County codes every Gracemor parcel to city 14 and to school district 74; the county’s own city table reads code 14 as Kansas City. source
What the houses are likemedian built 1963
The median home sold here was built in 1963. Most of what sells was built between 1960 and 1967. 72% 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 (36).
Addresses here fall in ZIP 64119.
Compared with Kansas City as a wholehow this neighborhood differs
| Gracemor | Kansas City | |
|---|---|---|
| Median sale price | $242,500 | $295,000 |
| Median $/sq ft | $208 | $206 |
| Median days on market | 10 | 16 |
| Median year built | 1963 | 1964 |
| Finished basement | 72% | 45% |
Both columns are medians over the same twelve months, so they are directly comparable.
What this means if you are buying in Gracemorspecific to this neighborhood
Search the county records under both spellings. A title or plat search run only on “Gracemor” will miss the fourteen city ordinances filed as “Gracemore,” which is where the original plat conditions live. Then check which plat the address sits on: the second through twelfth plats are 1957 to 1966 ground, but Gracemor North was not platted until 1997 and is a genuinely different vintage of house sharing the name.
What to check in homes of this agemid-century stock
With a median year built of 1963, most homes here are mid-century stock. 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).
A note on older deed languagevoid and unenforceable
Deeds written in this era sometimes carry restrictive covenant language relating to race, religion or national origin. Where it appears, it is void and unenforceable in both states, and has been for decades: Missouri directs that such a recital be “ignored, as if the same never existed” source, and Kansas, where such covenants were already unlawful, added a release procedure effective 1 July 2024 source. An owner in either state may record a certificate of release, which does not alter the original document but restates that the covenant cannot be enforced. It is a paperwork question rather than a live restriction - but it is worth recognizing if it surfaces in your title work. What this language is, and how to release it.
What sold, in more detailsizes, bedroom mix and timing
Of the 36 homes sold, 1 were 2-bed, 26 were 3-bed, 9 were 4-bed.
Above-grade size ranged from about 912 to 1,632 sq ft across the middle 80% of sales, so the median alone understates how much variation there is.
Closings cluster in November, May and August, with 44% 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 Kansas City31 more with their own data
- Armour Hills 73 sales
- Ruskin Heights 69 sales
- Marlborough Heights 65 sales
- Woodhaven 53 sales
- Cadence Villas 46 sales
- Somerbrook 45 sales
- Ruskin Hills 45 sales
- Staley Farms 43 sales
- Red Bridge 39 sales
- New Mark 35 sales
- Crestview 35 sales
- Broadland 35 sales
- Fountain Hills 34 sales
- Sherwood Estates 33 sales
- Brooke Hills 33 sales
- Robandee 33 sales
- Platte Ridge 33 sales
- Ward Park 31 sales
- Rockhill Gardens 29 sales
- Romanelli Gardens 29 sales
- North Creek Village 29 sales
- Wildwood West 29 sales
- North Hampton 28 sales
- Randolph Corners North 28 sales
Thinking about Gracemor?
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 Gracemor, or see the wider Kansas City market.