Gideon, Missouri.
Typical home $77,175 (+0.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$200 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $266 +0%
- $76,909$77,175 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,842 +30%
- $59,333$77,175 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.
- Gideon$405
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Gideon, MO rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gideon, New Madrid County, Missouri
Gideon is a city of 780 people in New Madrid County. Half its households earn more than $41,538 a year and half less, against $51,881 across New Madrid County. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in New Madrid County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gideon is a very small city in New Madrid County, in the Missouri Bootheel. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and homes are priced low, while household incomes run below the county's. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in government. Across New Madrid County, the largest workplaces include SRG Global Coatings, Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. New Madrid Power Plant and NEW Madrid CO. R-I Schools. Unemployment has eased a little from a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Reelfoot Lake, the best known place nearby, is a lake a longer drive away, and Reelfoot Lake State Park sits beside it as a protected area. Hunter-Dawson State Historic Site is another protected area, also a longer drive away, and a good choice for anyone interested in local history. Winters are cold with a little snow, and summers are hot and wet through the year, so spring and fall are easy seasons for time outdoors.
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- 270households
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. New Madrid County had 7,405 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 71°. About 7 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Portageville weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in New Madrid County
- SRG Global CoatingsChrome plating metals and metal products for the trade329
- Moss & AssociatesSolar power structure construction208
- New Madrid Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district201FTE
- Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. New Madrid Power PlantPower generation, fossil fuel, electric178
- Alubar Metals MissouriCommunications wire or cable made in aluminum wire drawing plants138
- S&J Potashnick TransGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload104
- Refresco BeveragesCarbonated soft drinks manufacturing101
- Portageville SchoolsSchool district92FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,482 people in all across the county; Gideon has one 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Gideon’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 New Madrid County.
Gideon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gideon$77,175
- 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.
- Gideon7
Zip codes with a Gideon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gideon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.