Lebanon, Missouri.
Typical home $232,896 (+5.6% in a year), asking rent $981 . Lebanon, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$697 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,317 +6%
- $220,579$232,896 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,073 +33%
- $174,823$232,896 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.
- Lebanon$1,222
- 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 Lebanon, MO rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lebanon, Laclede County, Missouri
Lebanon is a city of 15,013 people in Laclede County. Half its households earn more than $48,359 a year and half less, against $53,282 across Laclede County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. 52% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 48% are rented. Unemployment in Laclede County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 4.3% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lebanon is a city in Laclede County, Missouri, with a population on the younger side for a town of its size. Incomes here run below the county's, and more households are below the poverty line than most would expect, while owners and renters each live in a good share of the homes. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold, with some snow, while summers are hot and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Manufacturing, schools and hospitals, shops, and restaurants and hotels employ most residents. Among the largest workplaces in Lebanon are Lebanon R-III Schools, Independent Stave Company, which makes wooden barrels, and Mercy Hospital Lebanon. Unemployment in the county has eased from a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and most people have a short trip to work, with very few working from home.
Things to do. Bennett Spring State Park, a protected area along a spring-fed river, is a longer drive away, as is Ha Ha Tonka State Park, another protected area. Closer to town, Bee Branch and Brush Creek are small rivers a short drive away, handy for an afternoon by the water.
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- 6,338households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Laclede County had 12,999 jobs in 2025, 4.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 8 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lebanon 2W weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lebanon
- Lebanon R-iii SchoolsSchool district703FTE
- Independent Stave CompanyBarrels, wood, coopered, manufacturing432
- Mercy Hospital LebanonGeneral hospital334FTE
- G3 BoatsBoats manufacturing234
- Lowe Boats - LebanonAluminum recreational boat manfuacturing215
- Detroit Tool Metal ProductsCar bodies, kit, manufacturing205
- American Stave CompanyBarrels, wood, coopered, manufacturing189
- Marine Electrical ProductsAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing128
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,598 people in all. 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningVery 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 Lebanon’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 Laclede County and the Lebanon, MO metro.
Lebanon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lebanon$232,896
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Lebanon listings, and the typical home goes pending in 16 days — the market is heating up.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Lebanon19.61%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Lebanon16
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lebanon125
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lebanon35
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Lebanon$237,138
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Lebanon97.75%
Zip codes with a Lebanon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lebanon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.