Crystal City, Missouri.
Typical home $228,050 (+3.4% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$664 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,427 +3%
- $220,622$228,050 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,909 +30%
- $175,140$228,050 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.
- Crystal City$1,197
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Crystal City, MO rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Crystal City, Jefferson County, Missouri
Crystal City is a city of 4,740 people in Jefferson County. Half its households earn more than $72,598 a year and half less, against $82,851 across Jefferson County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Crystal City is a small city in Jefferson County, Missouri, with an older population than many places and a long-settled feel. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a typical home is valued at less than many buyers might expect. Household incomes run below the county's, and winters are cold and snowy while summers turn hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and manufacturing and the building trades are also common. Mercy Hospital Jefferson, Good Earth Tools and Crystal City 47 Schools are among the largest workplaces in the city. Few adults hold a four-year degree, commutes are fairly long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Meramec River, a river a longer drive away, is the nearest of the outdoor options on the list. For a day out, Saint Louis Zoo and the Missouri Botanical Garden, a botanical garden, are both a longer drive away. Gateway Arch National Park, one of the best known sights in the region, is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,845households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 49,584 jobs in 2025, 0.3% 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 9 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Festus weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Crystal City
- Mercy Hospital JeffersonGeneral hospital962FTE
- Good Earth ToolsMachine bases, metal, manufacturing202
- Fountainbleau Nursing CenterNursing homes99
- Crystal City 47 SchoolsSchool district64FTE
- Mercy Home Health Hospice FestusHome health care services63
- Natural Disaster RestorationRadio transmitting tower construction43
- Crown PlasticsLamp shades, plastics, manufacturing24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,868 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Crystal City’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 Jefferson County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Crystal City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Crystal City$228,050
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Crystal City 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Crystal City17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Crystal City9
Zip codes with a Crystal City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Crystal City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.