Leadington, Missouri.
Typical home $146,578 (+1.2% in a year). Farmington, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$388 (+102%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $1,802 +1%
- $144,775$146,578 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,344 +20%
- $122,234$146,578 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.
- Leadington$769
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Leadington, MO rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Leadington, St. Francois County, Missouri
Leadington is a city of 764 people in St. Francois County. Half its households earn more than $37,938 a year and half less, against $57,477 across St. Francois County. 30% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 70% are rented. Unemployment in St. Francois County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. Francois 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leadington is a very small city in St. Francois County, Missouri, where few homes are lived in by their owners compared with most places, and renting is the usual arrangement. Household incomes run well below the county's, and the typical home value is modest. Winters are cold, with a light covering of snow in a normal year, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain across the seasons.
Work. People who live in Leadington work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and a small group work from home. Across St. Francois County, the largest workplaces include Farmington R-vii Schools, Parkland Health Center in Farmington and US Tool Group in Farmington, and the number of jobs has slipped slightly over the past year.
Things to do. St. Joe State Park and Missouri Mines State Historic Site are both in or beside town, so green space and local history are close at hand. St. Francois State Park is a short drive away, and Hawn State Park is a longer drive for a fuller day outdoors. Streams and creeks run through the surrounding countryside.
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- 19%of adults have a degree
- 10%work from home
What people in St. Francois County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Francois County had 23,012 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 9 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Farmington weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Francois County
- SmmhcPsychiatric hospital774FTE
- US Tool Group - FarmingtonMagnetic forming machines, metalworking, manufacturing717
- Farmington R-vii SchoolsSchool district540FTE
- Parkland Health Center - FarmingtonGeneral hospital521FTE
- North St. Francois Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district448FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters440
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters403
- Mineral Area CollegeTwo-year college354
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 45 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,906 people in all across the county; Leadington has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Leadington’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 St. Francois County and the Farmington, MO metro.
Leadington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leadington$146,578
- 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 Leadington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leadington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.