Augusta, Missouri.
Typical home $567,649 (+4.2% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,651 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,900 +4%
- $544,750$567,649 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $125,165 +28%
- $442,485$567,649 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.
- Augusta$2,979
- 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 Augusta, MO rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Augusta, St. Charles County, Missouri
Augusta is a town of 270 people in St. Charles County. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in St. Charles County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in St. Charles County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Augusta is a very small town, and almost everyone who lives there owns their home, a far higher share than across most of the country. Homes are valued well above what is typical nationally, and few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, and some snow most years; summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops. Across St. Charles County, some of the largest employers are General Motors Wentzville, Amazon and Lindenwood University. The typical commute is a long one, and a good number of people skip it by working from home.
Things to do. Klondike Park is in or beside town, and Shaw Nature Reserve, a botanical garden, is a short drive away. Charrette Creek, a river, is also a short drive away. For a bigger outing, Mid America Adventure, an amusement park, is a longer drive.
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- 2%below the poverty line
- 43 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What people in St. Charles County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Charles County had 162,655 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 8 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Washington weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Charles County
- General Motors WentzvilleAssembly plants, light trucks on chassis of own manufacture4,000
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,602
- Francis Howell R-iii SchoolsSchool district2,683FTE
- Wentzville R-IV SchoolsSchool district2,563FTE
- Fort Zumwalt School DistrictSchool district2,094FTE
- Lindenwood UniversityUniversity or college1,396
- SSM Health St. Joseph HospitalGeneral hospital1,291FTE
- The Boeing CompanyGuided missile and space vehicle manufacturing1,259
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 292 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 44,681 people in all across the county; Augusta has none 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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Augusta’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 St. Charles County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Augusta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Augusta$567,649
- 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.
- Augusta16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Augusta4
Zip codes with a Augusta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Augusta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.