Sunset Hills, Missouri.
Typical home $623,607 (+5.1% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,747 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $30,348 +5%
- $593,259$623,607 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $140,102 +29%
- $483,505$623,607 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.
- Sunset Hills$3,273
- 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 Sunset Hills, MO rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sunset Hills, St. Louis County, Missouri
Sunset Hills is a city of 9,198 people in St. Louis County. Half its households earn more than $138,144 a year and half less, against $82,936 across St. Louis County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% 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 finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sunset Hills is a city in St. Louis County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population skews older than much of the country. Household incomes run well above the county's, relatively few people live below the poverty line, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Homes here are valued well above what is typical nationally. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in banks, insurance and property, in shops, and in professional and business services. Among the larger workplaces in Sunset Hills are FV Operations, a continuing care retirement community operator, Vicon Construction, and Two Men and A Truck, a moving company. Commutes are fairly short, and a good number of residents work from home. Across St. Louis County, jobs have slipped a little in the past year, and unemployment is a bit lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. World Wide Technology Soccer Park, a stadium, is in or beside town. A short drive away are the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Saint Louis Zoo and Forest Park, a large city park with gardens. A longer drive brings you to Gateway Arch National Park and to the archaeological site at Cahokia.
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- 3,625households
- 62%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 18%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, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sunset Hills
- FV OperationsContinuing care retirement communities553
- Vicon ConstructionChimney, concrete, construction220
- Two Men and A TruckFurniture moving, used142
- GrimcoOther miscellaneous durable goods merchant wholesalers104
- SappingtonMail and parcel delivery86
- Mercy Landmark ParkwayHome health care services77
- Kadean Construction Company Inc Corporate OfficeAdministration building construction56
- Kennedy PaintingHouse painting54
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,319 people in all. 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
- HailVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sunset Hills’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 St. Louis County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Sunset Hills home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sunset Hills$623,607
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Sunset Hills 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.
- Sunset Hills26.10%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sunset Hills21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sunset Hills9
Zip codes with a Sunset Hills address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sunset Hills — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.