Pevely, Missouri.
Typical home $275,073 (+4.3% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$798 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,229 +4%
- $263,844$275,073 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,871 +29%
- $213,201$275,073 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.
- Pevely$1,444
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Pevely, MO rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pevely, Jefferson County, Missouri
Pevely is a city of 6,026 people in Jefferson County. Half its households earn more than $56,000 a year and half less, against $82,851 across Jefferson County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pevely is a small city in Jefferson County, south of St. Louis, and its residents are younger than in many American towns. Incomes run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect, though most households own the home they live in. Winters are cold, with highs only a little above freezing in January and some snow, while summers turn hot by July and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in town are Edge Manufacturing, UPS and Magnesita Refractories Pevely Plant. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the drive to work is a fairly long one for most, with only a small group working from home.
Things to do. The Meramec River is a short drive away and offers a place to be out on the water. A longer drive takes you into St. Louis, where the Gateway Arch National Park, the Saint Louis Zoo and the Saint Louis Art Museum are among the best known places to spend a day.
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- 2,366households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 49,584 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 9 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Festus weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pevely
- Edge ManufacturingBlades, saw, all types, manufacturing116
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services109
- DDP Specialty Electronic Material USSheet, polystyrene foam insulation, manufacturing83
- Power Services Group - PevelyIndustrial equipment and machinery repair and maintenance services53
- Magnesita Refractories Pevely PlantCrucibles, graphite, magnesite, chrome, silica, or other nonclay materials, manufacturing20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 381 people in all. 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 windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of PevelyRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of PevelyRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of PevelyRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pevely’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Jefferson County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Pevely home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pevely$275,073
- 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.
- Pevely13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pevely8
Zip codes with a Pevely address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pevely — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.