Risco, Missouri.
Typical home $85,947 (+14.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$232 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,123 +15%
- $74,824$85,947 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,548 +38%
- $62,399$85,947 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.
- Risco$451
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Risco, MO rose 14.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Risco, New Madrid County, Missouri
Risco is a city of 286 people in New Madrid County. Half its households earn more than $48,000 a year and half less, against $51,881 across New Madrid County. Unemployment in New Madrid County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in New Madrid 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Risco is a very small city in New Madrid County, in the Missouri Bootheel, where most people know their neighbors. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and homes here cost far less than in much of the country. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and summers get properly hot by July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing also employing a good number. Across New Madrid County, some of the largest workplaces are Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. New Madrid Power Plant, NEW Madrid CO. R-I Schools and Alubar Metals Missouri. Jobs in the county were slightly fewer last year than the year before, and unemployment there has eased a little over the past year. Not many adults in town hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. Reelfoot Lake, the best known of the nearby places, is a lake a longer drive away, and Reelfoot Lake State Park on its shores is a protected area. Big Oak Tree State Park is another protected area, also a longer drive away, and a good choice for a walk among old trees. Hunter-Dawson State Historic Site, a longer drive away as well, is a protected historic site.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 24 mintypical commute
What people in New Madrid County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. New Madrid County had 7,405 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Malden Municipal Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in New Madrid County
- SRG Global CoatingsChrome plating metals and metal products for the trade329
- Moss & AssociatesSolar power structure construction208
- New Madrid Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district201FTE
- Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. New Madrid Power PlantPower generation, fossil fuel, electric178
- Alubar Metals MissouriCommunications wire or cable made in aluminum wire drawing plants138
- S&J Potashnick TransGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload104
- Refresco BeveragesCarbonated soft drinks manufacturing101
- Portageville SchoolsSchool district92FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,482 people in all across the county; Risco 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Risco’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 New Madrid County.
Risco home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Risco$85,947
- 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 Risco address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Risco — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.