ZIP 63136 · Jennings, MO · 41,314 residents · September 2026
Difficult conditions for sellers. Listings sit longer and often close below asking, per the score. Typical home value $84K, +3.0% over 12 months; listings take 81 days to sell against 60 in the median U.S. ZIP.
Market balanceSeptember 2026
In Mar 2026: −47
HavenScore 61 overall · higher than 92% of scored ZIPs
Four parts, weighted. How the score works →
Where the balance sits this month and what moved it.
Each block is one month’s reading, −100 (buyers) to +100 (sellers). The series starts in March 2026. A dashed block has no reading on record. How the balance is measured →
Blue pulls toward buyers, orange toward sellers. Realtor.com, September 2026; Redfin, May 2026.
Cooling: prices +3.0% over the trailing year, with the market leaning toward buyers.
Zillow's figure is a smoothed index of typical value, not a list price; Redfin's are closed sales for the month shown.
How the typical value and the listings moved over the last three months.
Typical home value since 2000, and how far it moved over each window.
Zillow ZHVI peaked at $103,454 in July 2007; the latest value is −19.2% from that peak, 229 months on. Since January 2019 it is +80.2%. The sharpest 12-month move was −8.1%, ending December 2023.
Zillow's typical home value here, $84K in August 2026, is 71% below the median U.S. ZIP's $289K. Over the 12 months to August 2026, Zillow's typical home value moved +3.0% here and +2.8% in the median U.S. ZIP.
Starter homes here rose 40% in five years while top-tier homes rose 9% (Zillow ZHVI tiers) — the bottom of the market outpaced the top.
3-bedroom homes here run 61% above 2-bedrooms (Zillow ZHVI by bedroom); the MO median premium is 43%.
Zillow typical values by price tier, home type and bedrooms, August 2026.
| Window | Change | Per year | U.S. rank | Missouri rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 year | +3.0% | +3.0%/yr | Higher than 62% nationally | Higher than 47% in Missouri |
| 3 years | +4.7% | +1.5%/yr | Higher than 38% nationally | Higher than 18% in Missouri |
| 5 years | +20.1% | +3.7%/yr | Higher than 41% nationally | Higher than 22% in Missouri |
| 10 years | +132.7% | +8.8%/yr | Top 5% nationally | Top 7% in Missouri |
| Since 2000 | +19.1% | +0.7%/yr | — | — |
Zillow ZHVI · rank among scored ZIPs
Where the typical value is likely to be over the next 3 to 12 months, with the range the model has earned, and up to 36 months with Pro.
A forecast is a range, not a promise; the confidence word says how wide it is. How the forecast works →
Of the 3-month ranges we published since December 2025, 54% contained the actual price.
Zillow's own published forecast has this ZIP's typical value rise 1.9% over the twelve months from August 2026 (Zillow Home Value Forecast).
What a typical home here costs each month, against the typical income.
Inside the 28% line lenders use for housing costs. Rate is the Freddie Mac average for September 2026; tax is the state's statutory rate.
Insurance uses the average homeowners premium insurers reported for this ZIP in 2022, $1,855 a year (Treasury Federal Insurance Office).
Buying costs $515 a month less than renting here before maintenance and tax effects. Rents moved +1.8% over the year.
Under these assumptions the cumulative cost of owning and renting cross in year 2.
Like for like: the HUD fair market rent for a 3-bedroom here is $1,420 a month (FY 2026), against a typical 3-bedroom value of $103K (Zillow, August 2026) — a 16.5% gross rent yield.
Median home value ÷ median household income · Zillow ZHVI, Census ACS · under 4× has historically been comfortable
What it costs to own here beyond the price, and what the neighborhood is like.
Typical homes cost 2.1× the median household income here, against 3.7× in the median MO ZIP and 4.3× in the median U.S. ZIP (Zillow, August 2026; Census ACS 2023). Median household income is $40,388 here, against $71,388 in the median U.S. ZIP (Census ACS 2023).
FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 release, refreshed annually · tract-level rolled up to ZIP · not a property-level rating · no future-year projection · the tick is the median of 41 scored ZIPs in Saint Louis County.
Everyday prices in the St. Louis metro run 5% below the U.S. average (BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024).
Rents in the index run 21% below the U.S. average.
$75,000 at U.S.-average prices buys what $71,300 buys here.
Metro-level index, U.S. = 100 · 2024 · the St. Louis metro, not this ZIP alone.
Census ACS 2023 five-year estimates · the tick is the U.S. median ZIP.
The inputs behind each of the five parts, against the U.S. median ZIP.
A two-page brief for selling here: the market balance, recent signals and an illustrative net-proceeds estimate.
40 scored Missouri ZIPs within 12 miles; the ones below score within ten points and cost less.
Dots are Missouri ZIP centers colored by market balance; the ring is 12 miles.
Every figure on this page, where it came from and when.
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