Wildwood, Missouri.
Typical home $577,414 (+3.1% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,591 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,611 +3%
- $559,804$577,414 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $121,928 +27%
- $455,486$577,414 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.
- Wildwood$3,031
- 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 Wildwood, MO rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wildwood, St. Louis County, Missouri
Wildwood is a city of 35,417 people in St. Louis County. Half its households earn more than $161,060 a year and half less, against $82,936 across St. Louis County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Wildwood was 3.0% in August 2026, and St. Louis 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wildwood is a city in St. Louis County where almost everyone owns the home they live in, and the population is older than in many places. Incomes are well above the county's, very few residents live in poverty, and homes are valued high. Most adults hold a four-year degree, and unemployment has eased over the past year. Winters are cold, with January highs only a little above freezing, while July brings hot days, and the year's rain and melted snow is moderate.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in banks, insurance and property, and in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Wildwood are Schnuck Markets, the supermarket, and American House - Wildwood Village, an assisted living facility, along with Kelpe Contracting, a construction management firm. A good share of residents work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly ordinary drive for the region. Across St. Louis County, the number of jobs slipped slightly last year.
Things to do. For a short outing, Mid America Adventure, an amusement park, is a short drive away, as is Screamin' Eagle, a tourist attraction. For a day in the city, the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Saint Louis Art Museum are both a longer drive away, as is Gateway Arch National Park.
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- 12,851households
- 69%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 25%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 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the St. Louis Sprt Of South L Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wildwood
- Kelpe ContractingConstruction management, water and sewer line111
- Aegis Health and RehabilitationNursing homes95
- Schnuck MarketsSupermarket groc not convenience store87
- American House - Wildwood VillageAssisted living facility56
- Dowco EnterprisesSeasonal property maintenance services36
- Vail Resorts, Inc.Alpine skiing facilities without accommodations36
- Golden TriangleTruck-mixed concrete manufacturing28
- Solid Rock Foundation & Flatwork21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 470 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
- HailRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wildwood’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 St. Louis County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Wildwood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wildwood$577,414
- 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 3 Wildwood listings, and the typical home goes pending in 9 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Wildwood30.37%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Wildwood9
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wildwood112
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wildwood46
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Wildwood$561,995
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Wildwood100.65%
Zip codes with a Wildwood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wildwood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Wildwood
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63069 | Pacific | 15,697 | — | $302,538 |
| 63040 | Wildwood | 8,526 | — | $476,902 |
| 63038 | Wildwood | 7,107 | — | $649,348 |