Pierce City, Missouri.
Typical home $128,169 (-6.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$283 (+72%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $9,028 -7%
- $137,197$128,169 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $2,406 +2%
- $125,763$128,169 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.
- Pierce City$673
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Pierce City, MO fell 6.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pierce City, Lawrence County, Missouri
Pierce City is a city of 1,251 people in Lawrence County. Half its households earn more than $51,121 a year and half less, against $61,215 across Lawrence County. Unemployment in Lawrence County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lawrence 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pierce City is a small city in Lawrence County, Missouri, where most people know their neighbors. Household incomes here run below the county's, and the typical home is priced modestly. Very few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with the lowest temperatures in January, and summers turn hot by August. Some snow falls most winters, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Across Lawrence County, some of the largest workplaces are Schreiber Foods, Walmart and Mercy Hospital Aurora. The commute is a fairly short drive, and a small share of residents work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Capps Creek is a river a short drive away, a quiet spot for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Roaring River State Park, a protected area, and to the George Washington Carver National Monument, which honors the scientist and educator. History-minded visitors can also head to the Battle of Carthage State Historic Site, an archaeological site a longer drive away.
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- 482households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 24 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Lawrence County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lawrence County had 8,974 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 24°; warmest in August, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 7 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Monett 4SW weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lawrence County
- Schreiber FoodsCheese spreads manufacturing411
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters248
- Aurora R-viii SchoolsSchool district205FTE
- Mt. Vernon R-V SchoolsSchool district203FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters161
- Mercy Hospital AuroraCritical access hospital148FTE
- First Student115
- AFB InternationalPet food, dog and cat, manufacturing109
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,112 people in all across the county; Pierce City has none of its own. 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 windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pierce City’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 Lawrence County.
Pierce City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pierce City$128,169
- 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.
- Pierce City7
Zip codes with a Pierce City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pierce City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.