Lemay, Missouri.
Typical home $170,639 (+3.6% in a year), asking rent $1,462 . St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$479 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,874 +4%
- $164,766$170,639 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,437 +28%
- $133,202$170,639 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.
- Lemay$896
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Lemay, MO rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lemay, St. Louis County, Missouri
Lemay, in St. Louis County, had 17,117 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $60,399 a year and half less, against $82,936 across St. Louis County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in St. Louis County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lemay is a community in south St. Louis County, home to a fairly young population for the area. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Incomes run below the county's, and more residents live below the poverty line than is typical for the nation. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in much of the county, and the usual trip to work is a moderate drive. Among the largest workplaces in Lemay are Hancock Place Schools, Schnuck Markets and Barnhart Crane and Rigging.
Things to do. The Gateway Arch and its national park are a short drive away, a park along the riverfront that most visitors to St. Louis know well. The Missouri Botanical Garden, also a short drive off, is a good place for a slow afternoon among the plantings. For something longer, Cahokia, an archaeological site, is a longer drive away.
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- 6,241households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Louis County had 589,803 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 14 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cahokia weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lemay
- Ben Hur Construction CompanyStructural steel erecting or iron work contractors509
- Mechanical Dynamics & AnalysisCommercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services174
- Hancock Place SchoolsSchool district124FTE
- NU WAY Concrete FormsBuilding materials supply dealers104
- Schnuck MarketsSupermarket groc not convenience store65
- St Louis MO Barnhart Crane and RiggingCrane and rigging65
- Community Care Center of LemaySkilled nursing facilities60
- Charles J CoyleMail and parcel delivery55
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,335 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of LemayRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lemay’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 St. Louis County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Lemay home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lemay$170,639
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Lemay listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Lemay30.92%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lemay56
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lemay20
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Lemay$160,955
- United States$371,553
Zip codes with a Lemay address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lemay — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.