Bowling Green, Missouri.
Typical home $232,976 (+8.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$731 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,060 +8%
- $214,916$232,976 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,570 +29%
- $180,406$232,976 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.
- Bowling Green$1,223
- 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 Bowling Green, MO rose 8.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bowling Green, Pike County, Missouri
Bowling Green is a city of 4,195 people in Pike County. Half its households earn more than $53,295 a year and half less, against $54,989 across Pike County; 26% of its people live below the poverty line. 52% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 48% are rented. Unemployment in Pike County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bowling Green is a small city in Pike County, Missouri, with a younger population than many towns its size and incomes a little below the county's. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than you might expect for a town in rural Missouri, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers are warm, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with government, shops and manufacturing also employing many people. Across Pike County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Bowling Green R-I Schools and Pike County Memorial Hospital. The county has lost some jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is somewhat lower than it was a year earlier. A typical commute is a fairly short drive, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum, a museum a longer drive away. For time outdoors, Cains Creek and Dry Fork are both short drives from town, and the Salt River is a longer drive away.
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- 1,330households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pike County had 5,219 jobs in 2025, 3.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 16 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bowling Green East weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pike County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters201
- Bowling Green R-I SchoolsSchool district183FTE
- Pike County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital158FTE
- Ruth Jensen VillageGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability100
- Louisiana R-II SchoolsSchool district83FTE
- Legion Industrial74
- The Aviary Recovery Center - Summit Behavioral HealthSubstance abuse halfway houses67
- Pike Co. R-iii SchoolsSchool district61FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 745 people in all across the county; Bowling Green 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bowling Green’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 Pike County.
Bowling Green home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bowling Green$232,976
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Bowling Green 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.
- Bowling Green28.33%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bowling Green25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bowling Green8
Zip codes with a Bowling Green address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bowling Green — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.