Greendale, Missouri.
Typical home $143,220 (+4.7% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$429 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,459 +5%
- $136,761$143,220 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,390 +32%
- $108,829$143,220 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.
- Greendale$752
- 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 Greendale, MO rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Greendale, St. Louis County, Missouri
Greendale is a city of 642 people in St. Louis County. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in St. Louis County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. Louis County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Greendale is a very small city in St. Louis County, Missouri, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Homes in town are valued well below what is typical for the county's incomes, and the town is quiet in the way a place of this size tends to be. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July, with a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, and shops. Unemployment across St. Louis County has eased slightly from a year earlier, though the county has a few fewer jobs than it did the year before. Among the county's largest workplaces are Washington University in St Louis, The Boeing Company and Mercy Hospital - St. Louis, and a good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. A short drive takes you to Forest Park, home to the Saint Louis Zoo and the Saint Louis Art Museum, and to the Missouri Botanical Garden. Gateway Arch National Park, also a short drive away, sits beside the river downtown. For a longer outing, Cahokia is an archaeological site a longer drive away.
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- 21 mintypical commute
- 25%work from home
What people in St. Louis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Louis County had 589,803 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 72°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the St. Louis Sci Ctr weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Louis County
- Washington University in St LouisUniversity or college20,568
- The Boeing CompanyAircraft manufacturing13,947
- Graybar Electric CompanyDistribution equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers7,787
- Specl. Sch. Dst. St. Louis CO SchoolsSchool district5,153FTE
- Mercy Hospital - St. LouisGeneral hospital5,074FTE
- Brinkmann ConstructorsCommercial building construction general contractors4,695
- Rockwood R-VI SchoolsSchool district3,388FTE
- SSM Health St. Marys Hospital - STLGeneral hospital3,059FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 995 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 186,284 people in all across the county; Greendale has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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 wavesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Greendale’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 St. Louis County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Greendale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Greendale$143,220
- 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.
Zip codes with a Greendale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Greendale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.