Lewistown, Missouri.
Typical home $244,667 (+12.0% in a year). Quincy, IL-MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$701 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $26,187 +12%
- $218,481$244,667 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,092 +28%
- $191,575$244,667 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.
- Lewistown$1,284
- 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 Lewistown, MO rose 12.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lewistown, Lewis County, Missouri
Lewistown is a town of 521 people in Lewis County. Unemployment in Lewis County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lewis 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lewistown is a very small town, the kind where people are likely to know one another and the pace is unhurried. Winters are cold, with real snow, and summers turn properly warm. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the town sits among open rural country rather than near a large city.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing also employing many. Across Lewis County, the largest workplaces include Culver-Stockton College, Charles Industries and the Lewis CO. C Schools district. Jobs across the county have slipped a little over the past year, and the typical commute is a fairly long one for a town this size.
Things to do. Time outdoors here is mostly about water and open land. Blair Branch, a small stream, runs in or beside town, and the Des Moines River is a longer drive away. Wakonda State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive, and makes a good outing for a day away.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Lewis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lewis County had 2,354 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 18 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Steffenville weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lewis County
- Culver-Stockton CollegeUniversity or college198
- Charles IndustriesAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing109
- Lewis Co. C-1 SchoolsSchool district109FTE
- Mark Twain Casino & RV ParkCasinos109
- Canton Marine TowingHarbor tugboat services88
- Canton R-V SchoolsSchool district78FTE
- Lewis County Nursing Home DistrictNursing homes76
- Country Aire Nursing and RehabSkilled nursing facilities60
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 748 people in all across the county; Lewistown has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- Strong windVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lewistown’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 Lewis County and the Quincy, IL-MO metro.
Lewistown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lewistown$244,667
- 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.
- Lewistown6
Zip codes with a Lewistown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lewistown — 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.