Appleton City, Missouri.
Typical home $170,962 (-6.5% in a year). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$481 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $11,895 -7%
- $182,857$170,962 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,118 +17%
- $145,844$170,962 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.
- Appleton City$897
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Appleton City, MO fell 6.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Appleton City, St. Clair County, Missouri
Appleton City is a city of 1,032 people in St. Clair County. Half its households earn more than $49,036 a year and half less, against $53,043 across St. Clair County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in St. Clair County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. Clair County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Appleton City is a small city in St. Clair County, Missouri, where most homes are lived in by their owners and a typical home costs less than in many parts of the country. Household incomes run below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a modest amount of snow, while July brings hot summers and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, the building trades, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across St. Clair County, some of the largest workplaces are Truman Lake Manor, Osceola Schools and Ellett Memorial Hospital. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The countryside around town is mostly water and open land. Straight Branch and Brushy Creek are streams a short drive away, good for a quiet walk along the bank. For a longer outing, the Marais des Cygnes River is a river a longer drive away, and Fort Carondelet is a historic fort site, also a longer drive away.
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- 547households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in St. Clair County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Clair County had 1,746 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 10 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Appleton City weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Clair County
- Truman Lake ManorSkilled nursing facilities80
- Osceola SchoolsSchool district74FTE
- Ellett Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital69FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services58
- Appleton City R-II SchoolsSchool district56FTE
- National Control DevicesArmature relays manufacturing20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 158 people in all across the county; Appleton City has two 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Appleton City’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 St. Clair County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Appleton City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Appleton City$170,962
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Appleton City10
Zip codes with a Appleton City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Appleton City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.