Middletown, Missouri.
Typical home $320,046 (+8.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$994 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,491 +8%
- $295,555$320,046 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,397 +17%
- $273,649$320,046 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.
- Middletown$1,680
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Middletown, MO rose 8.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Middletown, Pike County, Missouri
Middletown is a town of 171 people in Pike County. Half its households earn more than $50,625 a year and half less, against $54,989 across Pike County. Unemployment in Pike County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pike 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Middletown is a very small town, with a young population compared with most places and few adults who hold a four-year degree. Household incomes run a little below the county's, while the typical home is valued well above what those incomes might suggest. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops also employing many. Across Pike County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Bowling Green R-I Schools and Pike County Memorial Hospital. Commutes are long, and unemployment in the county has eased a little over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. Several small creeks run in or beside town, including Crooked Creek, Coon Creek and Sandy Creek, and they make for easy walks close to home. Farther afield, the Cuivre River is a longer drive away, as is Graham Cave State Park, a protected area for those who want a full day out.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
- 42 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Pike County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pike County had 5,219 jobs in 2025, 3.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Vandalia weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pike County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters201
- Bowling Green R-I SchoolsSchool district183FTE
- Pike County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital158FTE
- Ruth Jensen VillageGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability100
- Louisiana R-II SchoolsSchool district83FTE
- Legion Industrial74
- The Aviary Recovery Center - Summit Behavioral HealthSubstance abuse halfway houses67
- Pike Co. R-iii SchoolsSchool district61FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 745 people in all across the county; Middletown has none of its own. 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Middletown’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 Pike County.
Middletown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Middletown$320,046
- 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.
- Middletown5
Zip codes with a Middletown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Middletown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.