Perry, Missouri.
Typical home $239,159 (+6.5% in a year). Hannibal, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$768 (+157%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,660 +7%
- $224,499$239,159 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,901 +42%
- $168,258$239,159 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.
- Perry$1,255
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Perry, MO rose 6.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Perry, Ralls County, Missouri
Perry is a city of 665 people in Ralls County. Half its households earn more than $50,795 a year and half less, against $65,388 across Ralls County. Unemployment in Ralls County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ralls County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Perry is a very small city in Ralls County, Missouri, the kind of place where residents tend to know one another. Household incomes in town run below the county's, and a typical home here is valued at less than the typical home across much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and the building trades also common. Across Ralls County, some of the largest workplaces are Ralls CO. R-II Schools, Perry Machine & Die, and Ralls County Electric Cooperative. Unemployment in the county has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site and Mark Twain State Park, both protected areas, are a short drive away. Mark Twain Lake, a reservoir, is also a short drive from town. Burbridge Creek runs in or beside Perry itself, and the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 7%work from home
What people in Ralls County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ralls County had 3,607 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more 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 Ralls County
- Ralls Co. R-II SchoolsSchool district117FTE
- Perry Machine & DieUtility containers, plastics, manufacturing89
- Ralls County Electric CooperativeElectric power distribution systems30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 119 people in all across the county; Perry has none of its own. School districts come 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Perry’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 Ralls County and the Hannibal, MO metro.
Perry home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Perry$239,159
- 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.
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.
- Perry15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Perry6
Zip codes with a Perry address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Perry — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.