Piedmont, Missouri.
Typical home $128,121 (+4.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$318 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,214 +4%
- $122,907$128,121 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $5,356 +4%
- $122,765$128,121 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.
- Piedmont$672
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 81 years.
Typical home values in Piedmont, MO rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Piedmont, Wayne County, Missouri
Piedmont is a city of 1,897 people in Wayne County. Half its households earn more than $40,019 a year and half less, against $47,226 across Wayne County. 51% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 49% are rented. Unemployment in Wayne County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wayne 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Piedmont is a small city, with a population on the younger side for an older-homeowner audience and incomes below the county's. Homes are lived in by their owners only slightly more often than not, so renters make up a large part of the community. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and typical home values are modest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Wayne County, the largest workplaces include Clearwater R-I Schools, Greenville R-II Schools and Americare Senior Living. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though job growth has been close to flat.
Things to do. Lick Branch and Greasy Creek run in or beside town, and Logan Creek is a short drive away, making them easy places to spend time by the water. For a longer outing, Sam A. Baker State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
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- 1,137households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 8%work from home
What people in Wayne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 2,272 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clearwater Dam weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wayne County
- Clearwater R-I SchoolsSchool district130FTE
- Greenville R-II SchoolsSchool district78FTE
- Americare Senior LivingHealthcare69
- Greenville Healthcare CenterSkilled nursing facilities62
- Impact FisheriesFish manufacturing54
- Fine LaboratoriesHarness assemblies for electronic use manufacturing52
- Kerry IngredientsBeverage bases manufacturing36
- Services for Extended EmploymentSheltered workshops29
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 324 people in all across the county; Piedmont has two 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Piedmont’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Wayne County.
Piedmont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Piedmont$128,121
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Piedmont listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Piedmont18.01%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Piedmont43
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Piedmont9
Zip codes with a Piedmont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Piedmont — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.