Manchester, Missouri.
Typical home $375,974 (+2.3% in a year), asking rent $1,805 . St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,023 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,607 +2%
- $367,368$375,974 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $74,533 +25%
- $301,441$375,974 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.
- Manchester$1,973
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Manchester, MO rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Manchester, St. Louis County, Missouri
Manchester is a city of 18,333 people in St. Louis County. Half its households earn more than $97,801 a year and half less, against $82,936 across St. Louis County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% 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 professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Manchester is a city in St. Louis County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run higher than across the county as a whole. Residents are in their middle years on average, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with some snow each year, and summers turn hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow spread across the seasons.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, or manufacturing. Within Manchester, the largest workplaces include Lafayette Work Center, which runs workshops for people with disabilities, along with Kohl's and Bobs Discount Furniture. Commutes are fairly short, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away is World Wide Technology Soccer Park, a stadium. Farther afield, the Gateway Arch is a park on the riverfront, cited here as Gateway Arch National Park, and Cahokia is an archaeological site. Each of these is a longer drive away.
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- 7,279households
- 62%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 23%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 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 8 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the St. Charles Ssw weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Manchester
- Lafayette Work CenterWorkshops for persons with disabilities131
- Kohl's62
- Bobs Discount FurnitureBed stores, retail23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 216 people in all. 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
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of ManchesterRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Manchester’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. Louis County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Manchester home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Manchester$375,974
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Manchester listings, and the typical home goes pending in 5 days — 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.
- Manchester33.07%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Manchester34
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Manchester18
Zip codes with a Manchester address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Manchester — 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.