La Monte, Missouri.
Typical home $220,117 (+5.3% in a year). Sedalia, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$671 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,149 +5%
- $208,968$220,117 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,842 +36%
- $161,275$220,117 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 Monte$1,155
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in La Monte, MO rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in La Monte, Pettis County, Missouri
La Monte is a city of 1,014 people in Pettis County. Half its households earn more than $65,648 a year and half less, against $60,430 across Pettis County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Pettis County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. La Monte is a small city in Pettis County, Missouri, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run higher than across the county, though a good number of residents still live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical home is valued well below what many older homeowners elsewhere would expect.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in professional and business services, with some in farming, forestry and mining. Across Pettis County, the largest workplaces include Tyson Poultry, Sedalia Schools and Bothwell Regional Health Center. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs, and the typical commute is short.
Things to do. Knob Noster State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the best known of the nearby places. Several creeks and small rivers also lie within a short drive, including Beaverdam Creek and Coon Creek. Bothwell Lodge State Historic Site is a longer drive away. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
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- 388households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pettis County had 19,680 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 67°. About 13 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sedalia Wtp weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pettis County
- Tyson PoultryPoultry processing1,731
- Children's Therapy Center / Center for Human ServicesActivity centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities1,175
- Sedalia 200 SchoolsSchool district763FTE
- Bothwell Regional Health CenterGeneral hospital745FTE
- Duke Manufacturing Company - SedaliaWater closets, metal, manufacturing517
- Stanley Black and DeckerTool boxes, light gauge metal, manufacturing505
- State Fair Community CollegeTwo-year college455
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters429
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 51 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,338 people in all across the county; La Monte has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in La Monte’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Pettis County and the Sedalia, MO metro.
La Monte home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- La Monte$220,117
- 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 Monte address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls La Monte — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.