Bellerive, Missouri.
Typical home $348,692 (+0.3% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$858 (+88%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $920 +0%
- $347,772$348,692 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,079 +13%
- $307,612$348,692 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.
- Bellerive$1,830
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Bellerive, MO rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bellerive, St. Louis County, Missouri
The Census does not count Bellerive on its own, so the figures here are St. Louis County's. Half the county's households earn more than $82,936 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 69% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in St. Louis County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. Louis County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bellerive is a town in St. Louis County, Missouri, and most homes across the county are lived in by their owners. The county's population is mostly middle-aged, and typical home values are fairly high. Winters are cold with some snow, and summers are hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work in a broad mix of fields, including schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, and shops. Unemployment has eased over the past year, although the number of jobs in the county dipped slightly in the most recent year. Many adults hold a four-year degree, and a good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Forest Park, a garden a short drive away, is one of the best known green spaces near town. The Saint Louis Zoo, also a short drive away, is a zoo that many families visit. The Gateway Arch National Park, a longer drive away, is a national park centred on the Gateway Arch.
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- 413,849households
- 40.3median age
- 47%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What people in St. Louis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Louis County had 589,803 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 8 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the St. Charles Ssw weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Louis County
- Washington University in St LouisUniversity or college20,568
- The Boeing CompanyAircraft manufacturing13,947
- Graybar Electric CompanyDistribution equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers7,787
- Specl. Sch. Dst. St. Louis CO SchoolsSchool district5,153FTE
- Mercy Hospital - St. LouisGeneral hospital5,074FTE
- Brinkmann ConstructorsCommercial building construction general contractors4,695
- Rockwood R-VI SchoolsSchool district3,388FTE
- SSM Health St. Marys Hospital - STLGeneral hospital3,059FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 995 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 186,284 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- HailVery high
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across St. Louis County, 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. Louis County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Bellerive home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bellerive$348,692
- 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 Bellerive address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bellerive — 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.