Qulin, Missouri.
Typical home $151,893 (+12.5% in a year). Poplar Bluff, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$389 (+95%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,824 +12%
- $135,069$151,893 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,561 +20%
- $126,332$151,893 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.
- Qulin$797
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Qulin, MO rose 12.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Qulin, Butler County, Missouri
Qulin is a city of 460 people in Butler County. Unemployment in Butler County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Butler 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Qulin is a very small city in Butler County, Missouri, where most people know their neighbors by sight if not by name. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and household incomes across Butler County sit below the national picture. Very few adults in town hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Butler County, some of the largest workplaces are Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, the Veterans Health Administration and Poplar Bluff R-I Schools. The commute to work is fairly long, and almost no one works from home, so most people travel to a job each day. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Chalk Bluff, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Lake Wappapello, a reservoir, and Lake Wappapello State Park, a protected area for walking and time by the water. Mingo National Wildlife Refuge, also a longer drive away, is another protected area with plenty of open country. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with a good deal of rain and melted snow through the year.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 27 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Butler County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Butler County had 17,959 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 70°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Poplar Bluff Municipal Airport weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Butler County
- Poplar Bluff Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital836FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs759
- Poplar Bluff R-I SchoolsSchool district627FTE
- Briggs & Stratton Poplar BluffGasoline engines manufacturing603
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters426
- Three Rivers CollegeTwo-year college265
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores144
- Robertson ContractorsResurfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway137
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,672 people in all across the county; Qulin has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Qulin’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 Butler County and the Poplar Bluff, MO metro.
Qulin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Qulin$151,893
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Qulin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Qulin — 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.