Leadwood, Missouri.
Typical home $89,379 (+14.5% in a year). Farmington, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$311 (+196%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,296 +14%
- $78,083$89,379 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,378 +66%
- $54,001$89,379 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.
- Leadwood$469
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 7 years.
Typical home values in Leadwood, MO rose 14.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Leadwood, St. Francois County, Missouri
Leadwood is a city of 1,178 people in St. Francois County. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leadwood is a small city in St. Francois County, Missouri, in the part of the state long tied to lead mining; the name points to that history. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and typical home values sit well below what many parts of the country see. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across St. Francois County, some of the largest workplaces are Parkland Health Center in Farmington, the Farmington R-VII Schools and Walmart. Commutes tend to be long, and almost no one works from home, so most people travel to a job each day.
Things to do. Blay Creek runs in or beside town, and St. Joe State Park and the Missouri Mines State Historic Site are both a short drive away. St. Joe State Park is a large protected area for the outdoors, and the historic site recalls the region's mining past. Elephant Rocks State Park, known for its huge granite boulders, is a longer drive away.
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- 33 mintypical commute
- 1%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, 11 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; Leadwood has one 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 Leadwood’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.
Leadwood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leadwood$89,379
- 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.
- Leadwood6
Zip codes with a Leadwood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leadwood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.