Dexter, Missouri.
Typical home $168,284 (+2.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$412 (+88%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,650 +2%
- $164,635$168,284 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,736 +12%
- $150,548$168,284 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.
- Dexter$883
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Dexter, MO rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dexter, Stoddard County, Missouri
Dexter is a city of 7,927 people in Stoddard County. Half its households earn more than $51,701 a year and half less, against $57,957 across Stoddard County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Stoddard County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dexter is a small city in Stoddard County, in the Missouri Bootheel country. Its residents are of middling age, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and summers hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Among the biggest workplaces in Dexter are Walmart, Dexter R-XI Schools and Southeasthealth Center of Stoddard County. Most people get to work in a short drive, and few work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lake Wappapello is a reservoir a longer drive away, and Lake Wappapello State Park, a protected area, sits in the same direction. Mingo National Wildlife Refuge, also a longer drive away, is a protected area set aside for wildlife.
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- 3,249households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stoddard County had 10,107 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Malden Municipal Airport weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dexter
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters285
- Dexter R-XI SchoolsSchool district281FTE
- Southeasthealth Center of Stoddard CGeneral hospital173FTE
- ForviaExhaust and tail pipes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing102
- Harp's Food StoreRetail grocery72
- Americare at Cypress Point Nursing Center LLC Cypress Point Rehabilitation and Skilled NursingHealthcare65
- DexterMail and parcel delivery34
- Cal-Maine Foods DexterEggs, chicken production32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 815 people in all. 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- EarthquakesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dexter’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 Stoddard County.
Dexter home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dexter$168,284
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Dexter listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Dexter20.62%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dexter94
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dexter16
Zip codes with a Dexter address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dexter — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.