Shrewsbury, Missouri.
Typical home $284,729 (+1.0% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$780 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,847 +1%
- $281,882$284,729 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,370 +23%
- $232,359$284,729 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.
- Shrewsbury$1,494
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Shrewsbury, MO rose 1.0% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Shrewsbury, St. Louis County, Missouri
Shrewsbury is a city of 6,406 people in St. Louis County. Half its households earn more than $80,757 a year and half less, against $82,936 across St. Louis County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in St. Louis County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Shrewsbury is a small city in St. Louis County where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the chilliest month, and summers turn hot by July, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services and in shops. Among the larger workplaces in Shrewsbury are Spire Missouri, the gas distribution company, along with Walmart and Carr Lane Manufacturing. A fair number of people work from home, and the usual trip to work is fairly short.
Things to do. The Gateway Arch and the Missouri Botanical Garden are both a short drive away, the first a national park along the riverfront and the second a botanical garden. The Saint Louis Zoo is also close by, and Cahokia, an archaeological site, makes a longer outing.
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- 3,071households
- 54%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Louis County had 589,803 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 72°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the St. Louis Sci Ctr weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shrewsbury
- Spire Missouri Inc. - ShrewsburyGas, natural, distribution449
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters346
- ACME ConstructorsMillwrights279
- Carr Lane Manufacturing - St. LouisJigs and fixtures for use with machine tools manufacturing104
- Mackenzie PointeMail and parcel delivery100
- Roofers MartAsphalt roofing shingles merchant wholesalers93
- Canterbury EnterprisesSheltered workshops79
- Kenrick Glennon SeminaryUniversity or college61
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,619 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Earthquakesrelatively high in parts of ShrewsburyRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of ShrewsburyRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Shrewsbury’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. Louis County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Shrewsbury home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Shrewsbury$284,729
- 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.
- Shrewsbury11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Shrewsbury5
Zip codes with a Shrewsbury address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shrewsbury — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.