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The median home value in Clayton, MO is $896,931 as of 2026-07-31, up 7.25% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$896,931
Year-over-Year
+7.25%
Population
17,501
Clayton ranks #3 of 113 Missouri cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 230.5% above the state's city median of $271,406. It sits in Saint Louis County, where the county-wide median is $289,872.
Median household income in Clayton is $123,000, so the typical home value is about 7.3× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Clayton police recorded a violent crime rate of 103 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 794 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Clayton, that value is $896,931. That's up 7.25% from a year earlier. It is about 230.5% above the typical Missouri city tracked here.
Homes in Clayton are more expensive than Saint Louis County as a whole, where the median is $289,872 — a difference of about 209.4%.
Median household income here is $123,000, so the typical home value is about 7.3× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Clayton police reported 103 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 17,501. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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