Foley, Missouri.
Typical home $265,997 (+5.9% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$675 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,827 +6%
- $251,170$265,997 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,099 +13%
- $235,898$265,997 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.
- Foley$1,396
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Foley, MO rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Foley, Lincoln County, Missouri
Foley is a city of 89 people in Lincoln County. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lincoln County work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Foley is a small city in Lincoln County, in east-central Missouri, and it is a very small community where people tend to know one another. Its home values and household incomes are the town's own, so they are best read as a picture of local life rather than as a comparison with larger places. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and the town feels quiet and close-knit.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in manufacturing, and in local shops. Across Lincoln County, unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs has grown slightly. Few adults in the town hold a four-year degree, so work tends to be rooted in trades and services.
Things to do. The Illinois River lies a longer drive away and offers a broad waterway for those who enjoy being on the water. Cuivre River State Park, also a longer drive away, is a protected area of woods and streams for walking and quiet days outdoors. Two Rivers National Wildlife Refuge is a short drive away and is a protected area suited to birdwatching and wildlife viewing.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
What people in Lincoln County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 12,977 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 16 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elsberry South weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln County
- Toyota Motor Manufacturing MissouriAluminum casting1,082
- Troy R-iii SchoolsSchool district838FTE
- Daddy Ray'sBakery products, dry, manufacturing380
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters367
- Witte Bros. ExchangeTrucking, specialized freight, long-distance356
- Winfield R-IV SchoolsSchool district227FTE
- Coastal Carriers Truck LinesTrucking, specialized freight, long-distance224
- Mercy Hospital LincolnCritical access hospital191FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,881 people in all across the county; Foley has none of its own. 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Foley’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Lincoln County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Foley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Foley$265,997
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Foley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Foley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.