Hannibal, Missouri.
Typical home $177,617 (+3.1% in a year), asking rent $1,112 . Hannibal, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$539 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,352 +3%
- $172,265$177,617 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,545 +34%
- $132,072$177,617 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.
- Hannibal$932
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Hannibal, MO rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hannibal, Marion County, Missouri
Hannibal is a city of 17,108 people in Marion County. Half its households earn more than $53,721 a year and half less, against $62,903 across Marion County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Marion County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hannibal is a small river city in Marion County, best known as the boyhood home of Mark Twain. Incomes here run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect to find in a place its size. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and professional and business services also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Hannibal are Hannibal 60 Schools, Walmart and Hannibal-LaGrange University. Getting to work takes little time, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum sits in or beside town and is the natural place to start. Mark Twain Cave, a tourist attraction, is a short drive away, and Riverview Park offers green space in or beside town. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
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- 6,891households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marion County had 12,987 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 67°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hannibal Wtr Wks weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hannibal
- Hannibal 60 SchoolsSchool district673FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters388
- Hannibal-LaGrange UniversityUniversity or college130
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter126
- Hannibal Carbide ToolReamers manufacturing73
- Quincy FHandtools, power-driven, repair and maintenance services retailing new power-driven handtools57
- Independent's Service Company - Market StreetPrinting, digital47
- Golden Eagle Dist. HannibalBeer merchant wholesalers37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 806 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Hailrelatively high in parts of HannibalRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hannibal’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 Marion County and the Hannibal, MO metro.
Hannibal home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hannibal$177,617
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Hannibal listings, and the typical home goes pending in 12 days — 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.
- Hannibal19.29%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Hannibal12
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hannibal77
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hannibal29
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Hannibal$193,239
- United States$370,717
Zip codes with a Hannibal address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hannibal — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.