Westwood, Missouri.
Typical home $1,372,320 (+11.2% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,940 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $138,353 +11%
- $1,233,967$1,372,320 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $341,594 +33%
- $1,030,727$1,372,320 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.
- Westwood$7,203
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Westwood, MO rose 11.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Westwood, St. Louis County, Missouri
Westwood is a village of 316 people in St. Louis County. Half its households earn more than $237,500 a year and half less, against $82,936 across St. Louis County; 1% of its people live below the poverty line. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% 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 finance and property, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Westwood is a very small village in St. Louis County, home to far fewer people than most towns. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, household incomes run far above the county's, and hardly anyone lives below the poverty line. Most adults have a four-year degree, and the typical home here is worth far more than in most of the country.
Work. Residents work mainly in banks, insurance and property, in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in manufacturing. Across St. Louis County, some of the largest workplaces are Washington University in St Louis, The Boeing Company and Mercy Hospital - St. Louis. The commute is fairly short, and a good number of people work from home. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. A short drive away are Forest Park, the Saint Louis Zoo and the Saint Louis Art Museum, so a day out is easy to arrange. The Missouri Botanical Garden is also close by. Winters are cold with some snow, and summers turn quite warm, so the gardens and park are best in the milder months.
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- 74%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 16 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 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 8 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the St. Charles Ssw weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Louis County
- Washington University in St LouisUniversity or college20,568
- The Boeing CompanyAircraft manufacturing13,947
- Graybar Electric CompanyDistribution equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers7,787
- Specl. Sch. Dst. St. Louis CO SchoolsSchool district5,153FTE
- Mercy Hospital - St. LouisGeneral hospital5,074FTE
- Brinkmann ConstructorsCommercial building construction general contractors4,695
- Rockwood R-VI SchoolsSchool district3,388FTE
- SSM Health St. Marys Hospital - STLGeneral hospital3,059FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 995 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 186,284 people in all across the county; Westwood has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- 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 Westwood’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 St. Louis County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Westwood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Westwood$1,372,320
- 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 Westwood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Westwood — 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.