La Grange, Missouri.
Typical home $189,864 (+8.9% in a year). Quincy, IL-MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$509 (+104%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $15,492 +9%
- $174,372$189,864 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,092 +19%
- $159,772$189,864 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.
- La Grange$997
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in La Grange, MO rose 8.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in La Grange, Lewis County, Missouri
La Grange is a city of 825 people in Lewis County. Half its households earn more than $58,456 a year and half less, against $59,934 across Lewis County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Lewis County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lewis County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. La Grange is a small city in Lewis County, Missouri, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in most places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July; the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing also employing many. Across Lewis County, some of the largest workplaces are Culver-Stockton College, Charles Industries and the Lewis Co. C Schools. Commutes are short, and the county has lost some jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Great River National Wildlife Refuge and Wakonda State Park are protected areas in or beside town, and the Wyaconda River runs there too. A short drive away are Sugar Creek and the John Wood Mansion, a museum. The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum is a longer drive off.
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- 327households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Lewis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lewis County had 2,354 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 66°. About 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Canton L&d weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lewis County
- Culver-Stockton CollegeUniversity or college198
- Charles IndustriesAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing109
- Lewis Co. C-1 SchoolsSchool district109FTE
- Mark Twain Casino & RV ParkCasinos109
- Canton Marine TowingHarbor tugboat services88
- Canton R-V SchoolsSchool district78FTE
- Lewis County Nursing Home DistrictNursing homes76
- Country Aire Nursing and RehabSkilled nursing facilities60
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 748 people in all across the county; La Grange has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in La Grange’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 Lewis County and the Quincy, IL-MO metro.
La Grange home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- La Grange$189,864
- 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 La Grange address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls La Grange — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.