Rockville, Missouri.
Typical home $145,409 (-4.5% in a year). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$304 (+66%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,926 -5%
- $152,335$145,409 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $12,278 -8%
- $157,687$145,409 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.
- Rockville$763
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Rockville, MO fell 4.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rockville, St. Clair County, Missouri
Rockville is a city of 135 people in St. Clair County. Unemployment in St. Clair County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. Clair 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rockville is a very small city in St. Clair County, Missouri, with a quiet, rural feel. Homes here are typically valued well below what buyers pay in much of the country. Winters are cold, with highs that stay near freezing in January and a modest amount of snow, while summers turn hot by July, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Across St. Clair County, household incomes sit below the national picture, and the job market has been growing slightly, with unemployment easing over the past year. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, or in transport, warehouses and utilities. Some of the county's largest workplaces are Truman Lake Manor, Osceola Schools and Ellett Memorial Hospital.
Things to do. Panther Creek runs in or beside town, and the Marais des Cygnes River and Little Osage River are both a short drive away for a day by the water. Also a short drive off is Fort Carondelet, a historic fort that points back to the area's early past.
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- 12%below the poverty line
What people in St. Clair County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Clair County had 1,746 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 10 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Appleton City weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Clair County
- Truman Lake ManorSkilled nursing facilities80
- Osceola SchoolsSchool district74FTE
- Ellett Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital69FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services58
- Appleton City R-II SchoolsSchool district56FTE
- National Control DevicesArmature relays manufacturing20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 158 people in all across the county; Rockville 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rockville’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 St. Clair County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Rockville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rockville$145,409
- 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 Rockville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rockville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Rockville
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64783 | Schell City | 607 | — | $138,695 |
| 64780 | Rockville | 364 | — | $213,876 |