Argyle, Missouri.
Typical home $243,697 (+10.2% in a year). Jefferson City, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$168 (+15%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $22,540 +10%
- $221,157$243,697 since Sep 2025
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.
- Argyle$1,279
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Argyle, MO rose 10.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Argyle, Maries County, Missouri
Argyle is a town of 144 people in Maries County. Unemployment in Maries County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Maries County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Argyle is a very small town in Maries County, in central Missouri, home to few people. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing nights, while summers turn hot by July, and a fair amount of rain and melted snow falls over the year. Homes here are valued at less than many people expect for a town within reach of larger places, and relatively few residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in manufacturing and in shops. Across Maries County, some of the largest workplaces are makers of goods, including Diamond Pet Foods - Meta, Quaker Window Co., which runs wood, vinyl and glass facilities, and The Clorox Company. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs there has edged up. A typical commute is a little longer than many people are used to.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor places are rivers and creeks, with the Osage River the best known, followed by Buck Elk Creek, both a longer drive away. For a different kind of outing, Jefferson Landing State Historic Site is a protected area, also a longer drive away. Most of what is nearby is waterways and countryside rather than attractions in town.
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- 4%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
What people in Maries County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Maries County had 1,398 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 69°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Vienna Wnw weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Maries County
- Diamond Pet Foods - MetaDog and cat food, manufacturing280
- Quaker Window Co. - Wood FacilityWood window and door manufacturing201
- Quaker Window Co. - Vinyl FacilityAll other plastics product manufacturing171
- Quaker Window Co. - Glass FacilityGlass product manufacturing made of purchased glass112
- The Clorox CompanyCharcoal briquettes, wood, manufacturing104
- Maries Co. R-II SchoolsSchool district84FTE
- Gascosage Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power69
- Maries Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district67FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 937 people in all across the county; Argyle has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Argyle’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 Maries County and the Jefferson City, MO metro.
Argyle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Argyle$243,697
- 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 Argyle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Argyle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.