Hermitage, Missouri.
Typical home $215,094 (+11.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$703 (+165%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,741 +12%
- $192,354$215,094 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,151 +41%
- $152,943$215,094 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.
- Hermitage$1,129
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Hermitage, MO rose 11.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hermitage, Hickory County, Missouri
Hermitage is a city of 621 people in Hickory County. Unemployment in Hickory County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hickory County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hermitage is a very small city, the kind of place where neighbors tend to know one another. Household incomes across Hickory County sit well below the typical American household's, and the typical home here is priced modestly. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree, and many people make their living in practical, hands-on work.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and the building trades. Across Hickory County, the largest workplaces include Lucas Oil Speedway and the Hermitage R-IV Schools, along with several other school districts. Unemployment in the county has eased compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Water is the main draw here. Crane Creek runs in or beside town, and Pomme de Terre Lake, a reservoir, and Pomme de Terre State Park, a protected area, are each a short drive away. For a longer outing, Harry S. Truman Reservoir is a longer drive away. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
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- 15%of adults have a degree
What people in Hickory County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hickory County had 1,546 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pomme De Terre Dam weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hickory County
- Lucas Oil SpeedwayRacetracks108
- Hickory Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district69FTE
- Wheatland R-II SchoolsSchool district57FTE
- Hermitage R-IV SchoolsSchool district51FTE
- Weaubleau R-iii SchoolsSchool district38FTE
- Lucas Cattle RanchBreeding, animal, services34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 142 people in all across the county; Hermitage has none 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hermitage’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 Hickory County.
Hermitage home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hermitage$215,094
- 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.
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.
- Hermitage17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Hermitage address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hermitage — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Hermitage
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65668 | Hermitage | 1,846 | — | $216,597 |
| 65779 | Wheatland | 1,053 | — | $195,191 |