Hazelwood, Missouri.
Typical home $162,752 (+3.5% in a year), asking rent $1,442 (+4.0%). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$470 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,477 +3%
- $157,275$162,752 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,819 +26%
- $128,933$162,752 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.
- Hazelwood$854
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Hazelwood, MO rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Hazelwood, MO rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Hazelwood runs $250/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $362 in Dec 2021.
That is $1,192 a month against $1,442 rent: a $854 mortgage payment, plus $163 property tax and $174 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Hazelwood
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,192
- Renting$1,442
- Mortgage only$854
Property tax · $163/mo 1.20% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Saint Louis County, MO
Insurance & upkeep · $174/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Hazelwood, St. Louis County, Missouri
Hazelwood is a city of 25,458 people in St. Louis County. Half its households earn more than $55,908 a year and half less, against $82,936 across St. Louis County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 59% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 41% are rented. Unemployment in Hazelwood was 5.0% in August 2026, and St. Louis County had 1.2% fewer 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. Hazelwood is a city in St. Louis County, with a population that skews somewhat younger than many older suburbs. Household incomes run well below the county's, and more people here live below the poverty line than is typical of the wider county. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good number of households rent. Winters are cold, with snow most years, and summers are hot, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Some of the biggest workplaces in Hazelwood are BioMerieux, which makes diagnostic test substances, Nature's Bakery, and Amazon, which handles courier and express delivery. Unemployment is a little higher than a year ago, and across St. Louis County there are slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. The best-known places nearby are all a longer drive away. Gateway Arch National Park is a national park beside the river, and the Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden. The Saint Louis Zoo is also within reach for a day out, and Cahokia, an archaeological site, is a longer drive away as well.
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- 11,344households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents 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 40° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 17 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the St. Louis Lambert International Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hazelwood
- BioMerieuxViral in-vitro diagnostic test substances manufacturing1,200
- Saint Louis NDCMail and parcel delivery739
- Nature's BakeryBakery products, fresh, made in commercial bakeries448
- Potter Electric Signal Company - St. LouisAlarm systems and equipment manufacturing370
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services197
- Saint Louis Metro AnnexMail and parcel delivery167
- STROCO ManufacturingAircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing151
- Community Wholesale Tire- St. LouisMotor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers150
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 39 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,310 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Earthquakesrelatively high in parts of HazelwoodRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hazelwood’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. Louis County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Hazelwood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hazelwood$162,752
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Hazelwood listings, and the typical home goes pending in 14 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Hazelwood29.25%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hazelwood62
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hazelwood24
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Hazelwood$141,609
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Hazelwood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hazelwood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.