Belle, Missouri.
Typical home $216,988 (+9.9% in a year). Jefferson City, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$648 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,589 +10%
- $197,400$216,988 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,006 +41%
- $153,982$216,988 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.
- Belle$1,139
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Belle, MO rose 9.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Belle, Maries County, Missouri
Belle is a city of 1,381 people in Maries County. Half its households earn more than $55,192 a year and half less, against $59,455 across 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Belle is a small city in Maries County, Missouri, with a population that has stayed modest in size. Household incomes here run a little below the county's, and a typical home is valued at a fairly modest price. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and some residents work from home. Winters are cold, with freezing nights common in January, while summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents of Belle work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, manufacturing and shops. Across Maries County, some of the largest workplaces are factories, among them Diamond Pet Foods - Meta, which makes dog and cat food, and Quaker Window Co., which has wood, vinyl and glass facilities. Maries CO. R-II Schools is also among the biggest employers. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs than the year before.
Things to do. The nearby places are creeks and rivers. Buck Elk Creek and Brush Creek are both a short drive away, and Swan Creek is another short drive from town. The Osage River, the best known of the waters around Belle, is a longer drive away.
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- 542households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 9%work from home
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 41° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Vichy Rolla National Airport weather station, 11 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; Belle has one 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Belle’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.
Belle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Belle$216,988
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Belle listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Belle17.92%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Belle19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Belle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Belle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.