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The median home value in Poplar Bluff, MO is $173,699 as of 2026-07-31, up 10.15% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$173,699
Year-over-Year
+10.15%
Population
16,108
Poplar Bluff ranks #97 of 113 Missouri cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 36.0% below the state's city median of $271,406. It sits in Butler County, where the county-wide median is $173,070.
Median household income in Poplar Bluff is $41,941, so the typical home value is about 4.1× 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).
Poplar Bluff police recorded a violent crime rate of 37 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — lower than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 211 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 Poplar Bluff, that value is $173,699. That's up 10.15% from a year earlier. It is about 36.0% below the typical Missouri city tracked here.
Homes in Poplar Bluff are more expensive than Butler County as a whole, where the median is $173,070 — a difference of about 0.4%.
Median household income here is $41,941, so the typical home value is about 4.1× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Poplar Bluff police reported 37 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 16,108. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.