Mineral Point, Missouri.
Typical home $192,100 (+7.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$509 (+102%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $13,284 +7%
- $178,816$192,100 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,795 +16%
- $165,305$192,100 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.
- Mineral Point$1,008
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Mineral Point, MO rose 7.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mineral Point, Washington County, Missouri
Mineral Point is a town of 231 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $41,394 a year and half less, against $56,043 across Washington County. Unemployment in Washington County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mineral Point is a very small town in Washington County, Missouri, with far fewer people than most places on the map. Household incomes here run below the county's, and homes are priced modestly. Very few adults hold a four-year degree, and many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in manufacturing and in shops. Winters are cold and bring some snow, summers are hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Across Washington County, jobs have held roughly steady, with slightly fewer than the year before, and unemployment has eased a little compared with a year earlier. The largest workplaces in the county include Washington County Memorial Hospital, Red Wing Shoe Co. Potosi and the Potosi R-iii Schools. Many residents work in the same fields the county leans on, such as care, building and making things.
Things to do. Washington State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Bates Creek, a river, is also close by. For a longer outing, Mark Twain National Forest is a longer drive away, with room for hiking, camping and time outdoors.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 4,998 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 67°. About 12 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Potosi Southwest weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Elara CaringHome health care agencies257
- Potosi R-iii SchoolsSchool district215FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters211
- Red Wing Shoe Co. PotosiFootwear manufacturing209
- Washington County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital166FTE
- Kingston K-14 SchoolsSchool district122FTE
- Tide HealthGroupSkilled nursing facilities111
- Great Mines Health Center - PotosiCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient78
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,053 people in all across the county; Mineral Point 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mineral Point’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 Washington County.
Mineral Point home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mineral Point$192,100
- 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.
- Mineral Point5
Zip codes with a Mineral Point address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mineral Point — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.