Rea, Missouri.
Typical home $284,324 (+7.7% in a year). St. Joseph, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,022 (+217%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,335 +8%
- $263,989$284,324 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $117,581 +71%
- $166,743$284,324 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.
- Rea$1,492
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 6 years.
Typical home values in Rea, MO rose 7.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rea, Andrew County, Missouri
Rea is a city of 46 people in Andrew County. Unemployment in Andrew County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Andrew County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rea is a small city in Andrew County, in the northwest corner of Missouri, where neighbours tend to know one another. Winters are cold with a fair amount of snow, and summers are warm, with rain falling through much of the year. The town sits among the county's fields and quiet roads, so daily life tends to be unhurried.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in local shops, or in the building trades. Jobs in Andrew County have grown a little in recent years, and unemployment there is low. Many people in the area also find work close to home.
Things to do. Pedlar Creek is a river a short drive away, suited to a quiet afternoon outdoors. The Glore Psychiatric Museum is a museum a longer drive away, and the Missouri Theatre is a theatre a longer drive away.
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What people in Andrew County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Andrew County had 2,850 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 19 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Conception weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Andrew County
- Savannah R-iii SchoolsSchool district231FTE
- HGI St JoCasinos187
- VerticalNursing homes136
- Laverna Manor Health and RehabilitationSkilled nursing facilities89
- North Andrew Co. R-VI SchoolsSchool district52FTE
- Summit School ServicesSchool and employee bus transportation46
- United Electric Cooperative-SavannahDistribution of electric power41
- United Electric CooperativeInternet service providers, using own operated wired telecommunications infrastructure33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 601 people in all across the county; Rea has none 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
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rea’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 Andrew County and the St. Joseph, MO-KS metro.
Rea home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rea$284,324
- 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 Rea address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rea — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.