Scott City, Missouri.
Typical home $175,007 (+0.4% in a year). Sikeston, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$430 (+88%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $689 +0%
- $174,318$175,007 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $21,398 +14%
- $153,609$175,007 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.
- Scott City$919
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Scott City, MO rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Scott City, Scott County, Missouri
Scott City is a city of 4,346 people in Scott County. Half its households earn more than $62,599 a year and half less, against $62,782 across Scott County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Scott County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Scott City is a small city in Scott County, Missouri, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. The population is on the younger side for a town where homeowners are the majority, and incomes are close to the county's. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with rain and melted snow spread across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing also employing a good number. Havco Wood Products, Scott City R-I Schools and Buchheit Trucking are among the largest workplaces in town. Most people have a commute of ordinary length, and few work from home.
Things to do. Ramsey Creek runs in or beside town, and Cape La Croix Creek and Fort D are a short drive away. The Rosemary Berkel and Harry L. Crisp II Museum and the Broadway Theatre are also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Trail of Tears State Park is a longer drive away.
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- 1,726households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Scott County had 16,184 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Scott City
- Havco Wood ProductsFlooring, wood, manufacturing247
- Scott City R-I SchoolsSchool district97FTE
- Buchheit TruckingGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload88
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services82
- STLP PavestoneProducer of pavers and block34
- Fabick Cat - Cape GirardeauConstruction machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services31
- Sydenstricker Nobbe PartnersAgricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers28
- Southern Glazers Wine and SpiritsWine and distilled alcoholic beverage merchant wholesalers.27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 537 people in all. 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Scott City’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 Scott County and the Sikeston, MO metro.
Scott City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Scott City$175,007
- 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.
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.
- Scott City11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Scott City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Scott City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.