Russellville, Missouri.
Typical home $315,933 (+11.4% in a year). Jefferson City, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,043 (+169%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $32,270 +11%
- $283,663$315,933 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $107,830 +52%
- $208,103$315,933 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.
- Russellville$1,658
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Russellville, MO rose 11.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Russellville, Cole County, Missouri
Russellville is a city of 778 people in Cole County. Unemployment in Cole County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in government, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Russellville is a very small city, with a population well under what most people picture when they hear the word city. Homes here are valued above what is typical for many parts of the country, and the share of residents living below the poverty line is low. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying close to freezing, while summers turn properly warm by July. Snow falls in modest amounts, and the year is fairly wet overall.
Work. Many residents work in government, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, or in shops. Across Cole County, the largest workplaces include Jefferson City Schools, SSM Health-St. Mary's in Jefferson City, and Hitachi Energy, which makes electric transformers. Commutes are on the longer side, so a good number of people drive some distance to their jobs, and very few work from home. Unemployment across the county is low and has eased a little compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs there has edged up slightly.
Things to do. A handful of small creeks, including Brush Creek and Burris Fork, are a short drive away and suit a quiet afternoon outdoors. For a longer outing, Lake of the Ozarks is a large reservoir a longer drive away, and Jefferson Landing State Historic Site is a protected historic area, also a longer drive away. Sports fans can head to Faurot Field, a stadium that is likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 342households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cole County had 54,542 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 10 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the California weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cole County
- Jefferson City SchoolsSchool district1,491FTE
- Hitachi Energy USA, inc. Jefferson CityDistribution transformers, electric, manufacturing1,256
- ScholasticGeneral warehousing and storage906
- Unilever680
- Capital Holding GroupConstruction management, highway, road, street and bridge678
- SSM Health-st. Marys-jefferson CityGeneral hospital649FTE
- Capital Region Medical CenterGeneral hospital611FTE
- Jefferson City Medical GroupPhysicians' offices590
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 75 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,395 people in all across the county; Russellville 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Russellville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Cole County and the Jefferson City, MO metro.
Russellville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Russellville$315,933
- 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.
- Russellville8
Zip codes with a Russellville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Russellville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.