Perryville, Missouri.
Typical home $236,166 (+7.8% in a year). Cape Girardeau, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$712 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,017 +8%
- $219,149$236,166 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,478 +32%
- $178,688$236,166 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.
- Perryville$1,240
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Perryville, MO rose 7.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Perryville, Perry County, Missouri
Perryville is a city of 8,555 people in Perry County. Half its households earn more than $51,897 a year and half less, against $62,981 across Perry County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in Perry County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Perryville is a small city and the seat of Perry County in eastern Missouri. Its residents are somewhat younger than in many towns of its size, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and there is little snow, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. Among the largest workplaces in Perryville are Perry County Memorial Hospital, Atlas Molded Products, a division of Atlas Roofing, and Buchheit of Perryville. Unemployment in the county is low and has barely changed over the past year, and most people have a short drive to work.
Things to do. The best-known places nearby are rivers and protected land, all a longer drive away. Hawn State Park is a protected area for walking and time outdoors, and Trail of Tears State Park is another, set along the Mississippi. For some history, Fort de Chartres is an old fort, also a longer drive away.
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- 3,318households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Perry County had 9,627 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 5 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Perryville Wtp weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Perryville
- Perry Co. 32 SchoolsSchool district366FTE
- Perry County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital309FTE
- Buchheit of PerryvilleFeed stores70
- Atlas Molded Products, A Division of Atlas RoofingSheet, polystyrene foam insulation, manufacturing68
- United EnterprisesSheltered workshops61
- BrightliRehabilitation job counseling and training, vocational34
- PerryvilleMail and parcel delivery29
- Rhodes Convenience StoresConvenience stores / retail fuel & food sales26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 770 people in all. 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Perryville’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 Perry County and the Cape Girardeau, MO-IL metro.
Perryville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Perryville$236,166
- 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 5 Perryville listings — 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.
- Perryville21.53%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Perryville64
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Perryville22
Zip codes with a Perryville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Perryville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.