Laquey, Missouri.
Typical home $237,411 (+5.9% in a year). Fort Leonard Wood, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$728 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,189 +6%
- $224,222$237,411 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,731 +34%
- $177,680$237,411 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.
- Laquey$1,246
- 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 Laquey, MO rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Laquey, Pulaski County, Missouri
The Census does not count Laquey on its own, so the figures here are Pulaski County's. Half the county's households earn more than $64,466 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 61% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Pulaski County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pulaski County work in schools and health care, then government.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Laquey sits in Pulaski County, in south-central Missouri, and the figures here are for the county as a whole. Across Pulaski County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and residents are younger on average than most of the country. Winters are colder than in much of the nation, with frequent frost and some snow, while summers are warm, and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, or in restaurants, hotels, entertainment and retail shops. Unemployment across Pulaski County has eased a little over the past year, though the number of jobs has dipped slightly lately. Most people drive to work, and the trip is usually short, while a small share work from home.
Things to do. Bear Creek, a river, is a short drive away and is the nearest outdoor spot on the list. Ozark Caverns, a tourist attraction, is a longer drive away and offers a different kind of outing. Core Creek, another river, is also a longer drive away for those who want more time on the water.
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- 16,851households
- 27.8median age
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What people in Pulaski County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pulaski County had 13,141 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer 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 10 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waynesville West weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pulaski County
- Waynesville R-VI SchoolsSchool district477FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters414
- Perimeter Behavioral of MissouriMental health facilities, residential164
- IHG Army Hotels - Fort Leonard WoodHotels, seasonal, without casinos124
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter116
- Life Care Center of WaynesvilleSkilled nursing facilities108
- Vanquish WorldwideGovernment base facilities operation support services100
- Dixon R-I SchoolsSchool district97FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,392 people in all. 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 stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Pulaski County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Pulaski County and the Fort Leonard Wood, MO metro.
Laquey home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Laquey$237,411
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Laquey6
Zip codes with a Laquey address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Laquey — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.