La Russell, Missouri.
Typical home $296,790 (+6.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,012 (+185%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,819 +6%
- $279,971$296,790 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $102,493 +53%
- $194,297$296,790 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 Russell$1,558
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in La Russell, MO rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in La Russell, Lawrence County, Missouri
La Russell is a city of 134 people in Lawrence County. Unemployment in Lawrence County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lawrence 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Russell is a very small city in Lawrence County, Missouri, with a population that makes it one of the smaller incorporated places in the area. Homes here are valued well above what the county's household incomes might suggest, and the typical home value sits in the low-to-mid range for a house of its kind. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest; rain and melted snow add up over the year to a fairly generous total.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many people. Across Lawrence County, the largest workplaces include Schreiber Foods, Aurora R-VIII Schools and Mercy Hospital Aurora. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly, while the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. For time outdoors, White Oak Creek and Stahl Creek are rivers a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive reaches the George Washington Carver National Monument, a protected area, and the Battle of Carthage State Historic Site, an archaeological site.
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- 30 mintypical commute
What people in Lawrence County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lawrence County had 8,974 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Vernon Univ Mo - Southwest Ctr weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lawrence County
- Schreiber FoodsCheese spreads manufacturing411
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters248
- Aurora R-viii SchoolsSchool district205FTE
- Mt. Vernon R-V SchoolsSchool district203FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters161
- Mercy Hospital AuroraCritical access hospital148FTE
- First Student115
- AFB InternationalPet food, dog and cat, manufacturing109
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,112 people in all across the county; La Russell has none of its own. 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in La Russell’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 Lawrence County.
La Russell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- La Russell$296,790
- 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 Russell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls La Russell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.