Ellington, Missouri.
Typical home $165,432 (+6.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$466 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,329 +7%
- $155,104$165,432 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,458 +22%
- $135,974$165,432 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.
- Ellington$868
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Ellington, MO rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri
Ellington is a city of 790 people in Reynolds County. Unemployment in Reynolds County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Reynolds County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ellington is a very small city in the Missouri Ozarks, the kind of place where residents tend to know one another. Incomes across Reynolds County are modest, and more people live below the poverty line here than is typical for the country. Homes are inexpensive compared with much of the nation, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming, forestry and mining, and shops also employing many people. Nobody here works from home. Across Reynolds County, the largest workplaces include Ellington Industrial Supply, which makes sawmill equipment, and the Lesterville R-IV Schools district. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Doe Run Creek and Sweetwater Creek are both a short drive away, and make easy outings for anyone who likes to be near moving water. Farther afield, a longer drive reaches the Black River and Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park, a protected area in the Ozark hills. Mark Twain National Forest is also a longer drive away, with a great deal of open woodland to explore.
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- 359households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 0%work from home
What people in Reynolds County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Reynolds County had 1,701 jobs in 2025, 3.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clearwater Dam weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Reynolds County
- Ellington Industrial SupplySawmill equipment manufacturing81
- Lesterville R-IV SchoolsSchool district57FTE
- Southern Reynolds Co. R-II SchoolsSchool district57FTE
- Edward L Baker EnterprisesPallet parts, wood, manufacturing40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 121 people in all across the county; Ellington has none of its own. School districts come 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ellington’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Reynolds County.
Ellington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ellington$165,432
- 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 Ellington 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.
- Ellington26.46%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ellington22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Ellington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ellington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.