Leslie, Missouri.
Typical home $267,982 (+6.8% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$809 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,997 +7%
- $250,985$267,982 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,682 +29%
- $208,300$267,982 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.
- Leslie$1,407
- 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 Leslie, MO rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Leslie, Franklin County, Missouri
Leslie is a village of 136 people in Franklin County. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Franklin County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Franklin County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leslie is a very small village in Franklin County, Missouri, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Homes cost more than you might expect for a place this size, and incomes across Franklin County sit a little above what is typical for the state. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and some snow each year, and summers are warm and fairly wet through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Not many adults in the village hold a four-year degree. Across Franklin County, the largest workplaces include Mercy Hospital - Washington, Washington Schools and Parker Hannifin Sporlan Valve Division, and unemployment there is a little lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Meramec Caverns, a well-known cave attraction, is a longer drive away, as is Onondaga Cave State Park, a protected area with its own cave. Closer to home, Spring Creek is a short drive from the village, a small waterway for a quiet afternoon outdoors.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
What people in Franklin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin County had 39,757 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 64°. About 14 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rosebud weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Franklin County
- Mercy Hospital - WashingtonGeneral hospital836FTE
- hth companiesScaffold erecting and dismantling625
- Parker Hannifin Sporlan Valve DivisionOther miscellaneous fabricated metal products471
- Washington SchoolsSchool district471FTE
- Asplundh Tree ExpertTree and brush trimming, overhead utility line448
- KDC-OneAerosol can filling on a job order or contract basis443
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters420
- East Central CollegeTwo-year college395
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 112 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,642 people in all across the county; Leslie 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Leslie’s census tracts, 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 Franklin County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Leslie home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leslie$267,982
- 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.
- Leslie8
Zip codes with a Leslie address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leslie — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.