Foristell, Missouri.
Typical home $450,320 (-3.6% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,124 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $16,814 -4%
- $467,134$450,320 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,887 +8%
- $415,434$450,320 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.
- Foristell$2,364
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 43 years.
Typical home values in Foristell, MO fell 3.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Foristell, St. Charles County, Missouri
Foristell is a city of 550 people in St. Charles County. Half its households earn more than $116,581 a year and half less, against $104,692 across St. Charles County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in St. Charles County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in St. Charles 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Foristell is a very small city in St. Charles County, with a population that is easy to count in a single glance down a street. Household incomes here run higher than across the county as a whole, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Homes are valued well above what many older homeowners in much of the country would expect, and winters are cold while summers turn quite warm, with steady rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and retail close behind. Across St. Charles County, some of the largest workplaces are General Motors Wentzville, Amazon and the Francis Howell R-III Schools. Commutes tend to be long, and only a small share of people work from home, so most drive to jobs elsewhere in the county or beyond.
Things to do. Skunk Creek runs in or beside town, and Coon Creek and Big Creek are a short drive away for a walk along the water. A longer drive brings you to Cuivre River State Park, a protected area with room to hike and spend a day outdoors. For something different, the Butterfly House at the Missouri Botanical Garden is a longer drive as well.
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- 2%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in St. Charles County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Charles County had 162,655 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Warrenton North weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Charles County
- General Motors WentzvilleAssembly plants, light trucks on chassis of own manufacture4,000
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,602
- Francis Howell R-iii SchoolsSchool district2,683FTE
- Wentzville R-IV SchoolsSchool district2,563FTE
- Fort Zumwalt School DistrictSchool district2,094FTE
- Lindenwood UniversityUniversity or college1,396
- SSM Health St. Joseph HospitalGeneral hospital1,291FTE
- The Boeing CompanyGuided missile and space vehicle manufacturing1,259
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 292 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 44,681 people in all across the county; Foristell has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of ForistellRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Foristell’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 St. Charles County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Foristell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Foristell$450,320
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Foristell 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.
- Foristell33.53%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Foristell30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Foristell11
Zip codes with a Foristell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Foristell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.