Bridgeton, Missouri.
Typical home $278,568 (+4.0% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$782 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,665 +4%
- $267,903$278,568 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,539 +25%
- $222,030$278,568 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.
- Bridgeton$1,462
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Bridgeton, MO rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bridgeton, St. Louis County, Missouri
Bridgeton is a city of 11,445 people in St. Louis County. Half its households earn more than $72,005 a year and half less, against $82,936 across St. Louis County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% 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 residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bridgeton is a city in St. Louis County, with a median age a little older than in many American towns and a good number of long-settled households. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though there are more renters here than across the county as a whole. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values sit within reach of many first-time and downsizing buyers. Winters are cold, with highs near freezing in January and a fair amount of snow, while July brings hot summer days and a steady supply of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Among the biggest employers in Bridgeton are SSM Health Depaul Hospital, Hussmann Corporation and Pattonville R-iii Schools. Jobs across St. Louis County dipped slightly last year, and unemployment has eased a little compared with a year ago. A typical commute is a modest one, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. The Gateway Arch, a national park on the St. Louis riverfront, is a longer drive away. So are the Saint Louis Zoo, a zoo set in the city's large Forest Park, and the Missouri Botanical Garden, a botanical garden with landscaped grounds to walk through. Baseball fans can also make the longer drive to Busch Stadium.
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- 4,747households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents 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 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 17 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the St. Louis Lambert International Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bridgeton
- SSM Health Depaul HospitalGeneral hospital1,895FTE
- Hussmann Corporation - BridgetonCommercial and industrial refrigeration manufacturing883
- Pattonville R-iii SchoolsSchool district647FTE
- HUNTER ENGINEERING COMPANY INC Bridgeton HQ and PlantFrame and body alignment equipment, motor vehicle, manufacturing390
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters347
- Allied ServicesWaste collection services, nonhazardous solid286
- VirbacPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing248
- Mid America BeverageAlcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers233
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 64 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,279 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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 wavesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of BridgetonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bridgeton’s census tracts, 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.
Bridgeton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bridgeton$278,568
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Bridgeton 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.
- Bridgeton17.06%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bridgeton20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bridgeton8
Zip codes with a Bridgeton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bridgeton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.