Saint Robert, Missouri.
Typical home $239,586 (+2.3% in a year), asking rent $1,206 (+11.1%). Fort Leonard Wood, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$683 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,316 +2%
- $234,270$239,586 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,014 +29%
- $185,572$239,586 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.
- Saint Robert$1,258
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Saint Robert, MO rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Saint Robert, MO rose 11.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Saint Robert runs $430/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $593 in Oct 2023.
That is $1,636 a month against $1,206 rent: a $1,258 mortgage payment, plus $122 property tax and $256 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Saint Robert
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,636
- Renting$1,206
- Mortgage only$1,258
Property tax · $122/mo 0.61% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Pulaski County, MO
Insurance & upkeep · $256/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Saint Robert, Pulaski County, Missouri
Saint Robert is a city of 5,192 people in Pulaski County. Half its households earn more than $62,641 a year and half less, against $64,466 across Pulaski County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in Pulaski County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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. Saint Robert is a small city in Pulaski County, in the Missouri Ozarks. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good share of households rent. Incomes run a little below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line here than many would expect in a town this size. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are hot, with a fair amount of rain across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in manufacturing, and in government. Across Pulaski County, the largest workplaces include Waynesville R-VI Schools, Walmart and IHG Army Hotels - Fort Leonard Wood. Jobs across the county slipped a little last year, and unemployment has stayed close to where it was a year earlier. Commutes are short, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor spots are Dry Creek and Bell Creek, both rivers a short drive away. Ozark Caverns, a tourist attraction, is a longer drive away and suits a day out. Little Piney Creek is another river for those willing to drive further.
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- 2,533households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pulaski County had 13,141 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°. About 10 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waynesville West weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pulaski County
- Waynesville R-VI SchoolsSchool district477FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters414
- Perimeter Behavioral of MissouriMental health facilities, residential164
- IHG Army Hotels - Fort Leonard WoodHotels, seasonal, without casinos124
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter116
- Life Care Center of WaynesvilleSkilled nursing facilities108
- Vanquish WorldwideGovernment base facilities operation support services100
- Dixon R-I SchoolsSchool district97FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,392 people in all across the county; Saint Robert has two 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Saint Robert’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 Pulaski County and the Fort Leonard Wood, MO metro.
Saint Robert home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Saint Robert$239,586
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Saint Robert listings, and the typical home goes pending in 30 days — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Saint Robert30.88%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Saint Robert82
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Saint Robert23
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Saint Robert$251,520
- United States$371,553
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Saint Robert address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Saint Robert — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.