Hermann, Missouri.
Typical home $236,741 (+1.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$711 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,151 +2%
- $232,590$236,741 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,985 +32%
- $178,756$236,741 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.
- Hermann$1,243
- 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 Hermann, MO rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hermann, Gasconade County, Missouri
Hermann is a city of 2,185 people in Gasconade County. Half its households earn more than $61,979 a year and half less, against $64,232 across Gasconade County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Gasconade County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hermann is a small city in Gasconade County, and most homes in town are lived in by their owners. Incomes run a little below the county's, and a fair number of residents live below the poverty line. A minority of adults hold a four-year degree, and a good many people work from home.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Hermann are Gasconade CO. R-I Schools, Hermann Area District Hospital and Moore Gear & Manufacturing Co. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Deutschheim State Historic Site is a protected area in or beside town, and Frene Creek and Quick Creek, both in or beside town, are small waterways close at hand. Cole Creek is a short drive away. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
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- 964households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gasconade County had 5,025 jobs in 2025, 2.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 64°. About 14 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rosebud weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hermann
- Gasconade Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district134FTE
- Hermann Area District HospitalCritical access hospital92FTE
- Moore Gear & Manufacturing CoDrives, high-speed industrial, manufacturing85
- StoneBridge HermannSkilled nursing facilities66
- Hermann Area Ambulance DistrictEmergency medical transportation services, air or ground25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 176 people in all. School districts come 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 wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hermann’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 Gasconade County.
Hermann home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hermann$236,741
- 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 5 Hermann 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.
- Hermann21.57%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hermann20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Hermann address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hermann — 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.