Smithton, Missouri.
Typical home $250,071 (+4.7% in a year). Sedalia, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$748 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,136 +5%
- $238,934$250,071 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,053 +30%
- $192,018$250,071 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.
- Smithton$1,313
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Smithton, MO rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Smithton, Pettis County, Missouri
Smithton is a city of 506 people in Pettis County. Half its households earn more than $55,288 a year and half less, against $60,430 across Pettis County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Pettis County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pettis County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Smithton is a very small city in Pettis County, Missouri, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Incomes run a little below the county's, and few residents have a four-year degree. Typical home values here sit well within reach of a family buying their first house, and the population is a mix of ages, with a median age close to the national middle.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Very few work from home. Across Pettis County, some of the largest workplaces are Tyson Poultry, Sedalia Schools and Bothwell Regional Health Center. The county's job count grew slightly last year, and unemployment there has eased compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. Smithton sits among small waterways. Lake Creek runs in or beside town, and Lamine River and Walnut Creek are a short drive away, good for a quiet day outdoors. Bothwell Lodge State Historic Site, a protected area, is a longer drive away. Winters are cold, with January the chilliest month, and summers turn warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Pettis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pettis County had 19,680 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 67°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sedalia Mem Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pettis County
- Tyson PoultryPoultry processing1,731
- Children's Therapy Center / Center for Human ServicesActivity centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities1,175
- Sedalia 200 SchoolsSchool district763FTE
- Bothwell Regional Health CenterGeneral hospital745FTE
- Duke Manufacturing Company - SedaliaWater closets, metal, manufacturing517
- Stanley Black and DeckerTool boxes, light gauge metal, manufacturing505
- State Fair Community CollegeTwo-year college455
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters429
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 51 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,338 people in all across the county; Smithton has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Smithton’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 Pettis County and the Sedalia, MO metro.
Smithton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Smithton$250,071
- 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.
Zip codes with a Smithton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Smithton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.