Parma, Missouri.
Typical home $65,289 (+3.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$176 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,418 +4%
- $62,871$65,289 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $21,209 +48%
- $44,080$65,289 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.
- Parma$343
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Parma, MO rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Parma, Stoddard County, Missouri
Parma is a city of 555 people in Stoddard County. Unemployment in Stoddard County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Stoddard 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Parma is a very small city in Stoddard County, in the Missouri Bootheel country, where most people know one another by sight if not by name. Homes here cost far less than in most of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with plenty of rain and some melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Stoddard County, some of the largest workplaces are W.W. Wood Products, a kitchen cabinet maker, Dexter R-XI Schools, and Southeasthealth Center of Stoddard County, a general hospital. The drive to work is a short one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Big Oak Tree State Park is a protected area of old forest, a longer drive away. Reelfoot Lake, also a longer drive away, is a lake with a state park beside it. Chalk Bluff, an archaeological site, makes another outing that takes a longer drive.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 20 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Stoddard County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stoddard County had 10,107 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Malden Municipal Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stoddard County
- W.W. Wood ProductsKitchen cabinets, stock or custom wood, manufacturing1,442
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters285
- Dexter R-XI SchoolsSchool district281FTE
- Southeasthealth Center of Stoddard CGeneral hospital173FTE
- Rick Shipman ConstructionCommercial building construction general contractors165
- ForviaExhaust and tail pipes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing102
- Prairie View Skilled NursingSkilled nursing facilities94
- Puxico R-viii SchoolsSchool district89FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,930 people in all across the county; Parma 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Parma’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 Stoddard County.
Parma home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Parma$65,289
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Parma address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Parma — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.