Des Peres, Missouri.
Typical home $710,886 (+5.2% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,017 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $34,888 +5%
- $675,998$710,886 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $175,143 +33%
- $535,743$710,886 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.
- Des Peres$3,731
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Des Peres, MO rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Des Peres, St. Louis County, Missouri
Des Peres is a city of 9,193 people in St. Louis County. Half its households earn more than $224,327 a year and half less, against $82,936 across St. Louis County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Des Peres is a small city in St. Louis County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and where very few people live below the poverty line. Household incomes are far above the county's, and homes are valued well above what is typical for the region. The population is older than in many places, and the great majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with the lowest temperatures in January, and summers are hot, peaking in July. Snowfall is light, and the town gets a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Most people get to work in a short commute, and a good share work from home. Residents are employed mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in banks, insurance and property, and in shops. The largest workplaces in Des Peres include McCarthy Building Companies, St. Luke's Des Peres Hospital and Schnuck Markets. Across St. Louis County, there were somewhat fewer jobs last year than the year before, and unemployment there is a little lower than a year ago.
Things to do. Several well-known places are a short drive away, including the Saint Louis Zoo and the Saint Louis Art Museum. World Wide Technology Soccer Park, a stadium for soccer, is also close by. A longer drive takes you to the Missouri Botanical Garden, a botanical garden, and to Gateway Arch National Park, where the famous arch stands beside the river.
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- 3,195households
- 79%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 19%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 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, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Des Peres
- McCarthy Building CompaniesAddition, alteration and renovation general contractors, commercial and institutional building440
- St. Lukes DES Peres HospitalGeneral hospital303FTE
- Schnuck MarketsSupermarket groc not convenience store169
- Sam's ClubWarehouse clubs and supercenters146
- Drury DevelopmentConstruction management, commercial and institutional building120
- Trader Joe's 0695 Des PeresGrocery store92
- Sunrise Senior Living, LLC.Assisted living63
- McCarthy Building CompaniesOffice building construction60
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,702 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Earthquakesrelatively high in parts of Des PeresRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Des Peres’ 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.
Des Peres home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Des Peres$710,886
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Des Peres 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.
- Des Peres20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Des Peres10
Zip codes with a Des Peres address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Des Peres — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.