Webster Groves, Missouri.
Typical home $442,332 (+3.4% in a year), asking rent $2,125 . St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,202 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,724 +3%
- $427,608$442,332 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $93,331 +27%
- $349,001$442,332 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.
- Webster Groves$2,322
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Webster Groves, MO rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Webster Groves, St. Louis County, Missouri
Webster Groves is a city of 24,010 people in St. Louis County. Half its households earn more than $115,227 a year and half less, against $82,936 across St. Louis County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Webster Groves is a city in St. Louis County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well above the county's. Very few residents live below the poverty line, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree. 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. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, and manufacturing. Webster University, Lutheran Senior Services and Webster Groves Schools are among the largest workplaces in town. Commutes are fairly short, and a good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Several well-known places are a short drive away, including the Saint Louis Zoo, the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Saint Louis Art Museum. Forest Park, a large garden and park, is also close by. For a longer outing, Cahokia, an archaeological site, is a longer drive away.
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- 9,446households
- 69%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 26%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, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Webster Groves
- Webster UniversityUniversity or college1,192
- Lutheran Senior ServicesContinuing care retirement communities495
- Webster Groves SchoolsSchool district382FTE
- SpecGXPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing201
- KVC Missouri St. Louis/Webster GrovesMental health facilities, residential166
- Schnuck MarketsSupermarket groc not convenience store100
- McCallum Place St LouisPsychiatric and substance abuse hospitals73
- CareVet TMSVeterinary services72
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,760 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of Webster GrovesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Webster Groves’ 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.
Webster Groves home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Webster Groves$442,332
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Webster Groves listings, and the typical home goes pending in 6 days — 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.
- Webster Groves31.43%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Webster Groves6
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Webster Groves53
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Webster Groves26
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Webster Groves$435,483
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Webster Groves103.95%
Zip codes with a Webster Groves address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Webster Groves — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.