Philadelphia, Missouri.
Typical home $281,680 (+11.9% in a year). Hannibal, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$938 (+174%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $30,040 +12%
- $251,640$281,680 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $93,965 +50%
- $187,715$281,680 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.
- Philadelphia$1,478
- 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 Philadelphia, MO rose 11.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Philadelphia, Marion County, Missouri
Philadelphia, in Marion County, had 206 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Marion County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marion 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Philadelphia is a very small rural community in Marion County, Missouri, where neighbors are likely to know one another by name. Homes here are worth more than the county's incomes might suggest, and many households live on incomes that sit close to the county's. Winters are cold, with snow most years, and summers turn warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents of Philadelphia work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many people. Few work from home. Across Marion County, the largest workplaces include Hannibal Regional Hospital, General Mills Hannibal and the Hannibal school district. Unemployment across the county has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Several small streams, including Brower Branch, Long Branch and Troublesome Creek, are a short drive away. A longer drive leads to the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum, a museum devoted to the writer's early years. Mark Twain Cave, a tourist attraction, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 6%work from home
What people in Marion County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marion County had 12,987 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 18 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Steffenville weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marion County
- Hannibal Regional HospitalGeneral hospital1,143FTE
- General Mills HannibalGravy canning1,086
- Hannibal 60 SchoolsSchool district673FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters388
- Knapheide Equipment CompanyTruck bodies assembling on purchased chassis189
- Doyle Equipment ManufacturingSeeders, farm-type, manufacturing187
- Palmyra R-I SchoolsSchool district157FTE
- Hannibal-LaGrange UniversityUniversity or college130
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,208 people in all across the county; Philadelphia has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Philadelphia’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 Marion County and the Hannibal, MO metro.
Philadelphia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Philadelphia$281,680
- 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.
Zip codes with a Philadelphia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Philadelphia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.