Wright City, Missouri.
Typical home $311,736 (+2.6% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$950 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,774 +3%
- $303,962$311,736 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,667 +33%
- $234,069$311,736 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.
- Wright City$1,636
- 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 Wright City, MO rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wright City, Warren County, Missouri
Wright City is a city of 4,881 people in Warren County. Half its households earn more than $80,152 a year and half less, against $81,209 across Warren County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Warren County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 9.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wright City is a small city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and a typical home here costs a good deal less than many people would expect to pay closer to a big city. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest; rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in town are Wright City R-II of Warren Schools, Addman Engineering and Universal Galvanizing. Warren County has been adding jobs, and unemployment there has eased a little over the past year. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and a small share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Skunk Creek runs in or beside town, and Coon Creek is a short drive away for time near the water. A longer drive brings you to Cuivre River State Park, a protected area of woods and trails, and to Mid America Adventure, an amusement park.
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- 1,783households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Warren County had 9,000 jobs in 2025, 9.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Warrenton North weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wright City
- Wright City R-II of Warren CO SchoolsSchool district203FTE
- Executive Personal Computers76
- Addman EngineeringPolishing and buffing machines, metalworking, manufacturing73
- Universal GalvanizingGalvanizing metals and metal products for the trade63
- Sweetens Concrete Services50
- AvtaskAircraft maintenance and repair services37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 299 people in all. School districts come 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
- Strong windRelatively 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 Wright City’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 Warren County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Wright City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wright City$311,736
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Wright City 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.
- Wright City26.17%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wright City30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wright City11
Zip codes with a Wright City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wright City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.