Sikeston, Missouri.
Typical home $162,639 (+2.3% in a year), asking rent $1,225 . Sikeston, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$353 (+70%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,665 +2%
- $158,975$162,639 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $10,094 +7%
- $152,545$162,639 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.
- Sikeston$854
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 54 years.
Typical home values in Sikeston, MO rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sikeston, Scott County, Missouri
Sikeston is a city of 16,291 people in Scott County. Half its households earn more than $58,915 a year and half less, against $62,782 across Scott County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sikeston is a small city in Scott County, in the Missouri Bootheel. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run a little below the county's. The typical commute is short, and winters are cool with only a little snow, while summers get hot and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Sikeston are the Magnum Ice Cream Company, Missouri Delta Medical Center and Sikeston R Schools. Joblessness across the county is a little lower than a year ago.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Big Oak Tree State Park is a protected area, and Horseshoe Lake is a lake with a state fish and wildlife area beside it. Both are a longer drive away. For history, Wickliffe Mounds is an archaeological site, also a longer drive away.
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- 6,883households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 4%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 44° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 3 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sikeston Pwr Station weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sikeston
- Magnum Ice Cream CompanyIce cream manufacturing750
- Missouri Delta Medical CenterGeneral hospital708FTE
- Orgill Sikeston Distribution CenterHardware merchant wholesalers553
- Sikeston R-6 SchoolsSchool district500FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters371
- Do it BestGeneral warehousing and storage168
- FedExCourier and express delivery services161
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter120
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,029 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Sikeston’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.
Sikeston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sikeston$162,639
- 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 7 Sikeston listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Sikeston14.57%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sikeston109
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sikeston25
Zip codes with a Sikeston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sikeston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.