Homes, farmsteads, and hunting tracts across Pittsfield, Barry, Griggsville, Pleasant Hill, and the river towns — a Mississippi-to-Illinois River county that draws whitetail hunters from forty states and quietly anchors one of the deepest recreational-land markets in the Midwest.
Listings represented directly by Apex Realty. For the full Pike County MLS inventory, scroll down to the browse map.
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Pike County is bracketed on three sides by water — the Mississippi River runs the entire western boundary, the Illinois River runs the entire eastern boundary, and the wedge of farmland and timber between them covers 849 square miles. Roughly 15,000 residents live across 20+ towns, with Pittsfield (~4,200) serving as the county seat and Barry, Griggsville, and Pleasant Hill anchoring the western and southern districts. Illini Community Hospital, the Pikeland CUSD 10 school system, and the historic Pittsfield courthouse square sit at the center of daily life here.
Apex Realty is roughly 50 minutes east of Pittsfield, and we've been writing offers on Pike County properties — primary residences, hunting cabins, recreational acreage, and the occasional Lincoln-era farmhouse — for years. Pike isn't a market you can read off a spreadsheet. The same forty-acre tract can be worth $4,500 an acre as row crop and $8,000 an acre with mature timber and a managed deer herd, and knowing which buyer is shopping which property is half the job. Our agents have walked these timber ridges, the Sny Levee bottoms, and the bluff country in person.
Whether you're an out-of-state bowhunter looking for a quality-deer-management tract near New Canton or Nebo, a retiree wanting a quiet Pittsfield bungalow with a yard, a young family in Barry chasing the Western CUSD school district, or a relocating worker eyeing Griggsville — we work the full county.
Meet the Apex teamLive data from the RMLS Alliance MLS — every active residential listing in Pike County from every brokerage. Map and list view, filter by price, beds, or features.
Each Pike County community has its own market dynamics, school district, and neighborhood character. Click through for local listings, market notes, and area-specific guides.
County seat. Largest town. Pikeland CUSD 10. Illini Community Hospital. Historic courthouse square.
View Pittsfield →Western Pike County. Western CUSD 12. Easy access to Hannibal MO via US-36.
View Barry →Northern Pike County. Griggsville-Perry CUSD. Historic Lincoln-era town.
View Griggsville →Southwestern Pike County. Pleasant Hill CUSD 3. Mississippi River bluffs nearby.
View Pleasant Hill →Western village near the Mississippi River. Hunting cabin territory.
View New Canton →Southern Pike County. Acreage tracts and farm properties.
View Nebo →Pike County's real estate market runs on two very different engines. The residential side — homes in Pittsfield, Barry, Griggsville, and Pleasant Hill — looks like a normal rural Illinois market, with affordable single-family stock built around the hospital, the school districts, Pikeland's payroll, and Dot Foods commuters heading into Mount Sterling. The recreational side is something else entirely. Pike consistently ranks in the top handful of counties in North America for trophy whitetail bucks, and that reputation pulls in bowhunters from Texas, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and overseas every fall. Outfitters, leases, and absentee landowners shape a parallel market that competes with farmers for every acre that comes loose.
A pure row-crop quarter in eastern Pike might trade at $7,500-$9,500 an acre. The same dirt with a creek bottom, mature white oak, a few tillable food-plot acres, and a defensible access road can clear $11,000-$14,000 an acre when an out-of-state buyer with a 1031 exchange or a Texas hunting LLC steps in. Pricing hunting land like farmland is the most expensive mistake a Pike seller can make.
For sellers, that recreational premium only materializes if the property is marketed to the right audience, photographed in season, and listed with realistic hunting data (trail-cam history, harvest records, habitat work). For residential buyers in Pittsfield and Barry, the market is comparatively calm — well-priced homes in the $90K-$180K band still move in 30-60 days, with the deeper inventory backed up by aging-in-place owners and slow estate turnover.
The US-54 bridge at Louisiana, MO and the US-36 bridge at Hannibal pull a steady current of Missouri-side buyers into western Pike — retirees who want Illinois acreage at Missouri prices, hunters who want a base camp on this side of the river, and contractors crossing for work. Properties within fifteen minutes of either bridge see broader demand than the interior.
For specific submarket data — Pittsfield comps, Barry days-on-market, recent recreational sales by acreage band, or river-frontage trends — call us. We pull the reports for clients all the time and we'll walk through what the numbers actually say about your situation.
Pittsfield (county seat, ~4,200) is the largest, followed by Barry, Griggsville, Pleasant Hill, New Canton, Nebo, Perry, Milton, Hull, Pearl, Time, Kinderhook, Baylis, and El Dara — plus a dozen smaller villages and unincorporated communities scattered between the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. Apex represents clients in every Pike County town and on the rural acreage between them.
Median residential sale prices in Pike County typically run in the $90K-$160K band, with Pittsfield and Barry trending slightly higher and the smaller villages trending lower. Recreational and hunting acreage is priced separately — that market trades on a per-acre basis ($6K-$14K+ depending on timber, water, and habitat) rather than on traditional home comps. The MLS browse above shows real-time pricing on every active listing.
Yes — Pikeland CUSD 10 in Pittsfield is the largest district and the one most relocating families ask about; Western CUSD 12 serves Barry and the western county; Griggsville-Perry CUSD 4 covers the northern district; and Pleasant Hill CUSD 3 serves the southwestern corner. They're small districts, which families either love (low ratios, tight community) or have to adjust to (fewer AP and extracurricular options than a Springfield-size district). We can give you the local read on each.
Effective rates in Pike County typically fall in the 1.6%-2.1% range — slightly below the state average for the rural townships, with Pittsfield and the larger school-district townships running closer to 2%. On a $150K home, that's roughly $2,400-$3,150 annually. Ag and recreational land is assessed under separate productivity formulas that usually result in much lower per-acre tax bills than improved residential property.
It depends on the strategy. For long-term residential rentals in Pittsfield or Barry, the price-to-rent math is favorable — sub-$120K acquisition costs against reasonable rural rents — but tenant pool depth is the constraint. For recreational investment, Pike is one of the strongest land plays in the Midwest: short-term hunting leases, outfitter partnerships, and managed-timber appreciation all work here. Ag-only farmland is a steadier, lower-yield play. We can walk through whichever model fits.
Yes — and Pike is where this question matters most. Hunting tracts, timber holdings, food-plot setups, Sny bottom ground, river-frontage parcels, and traditional row-crop quarters all trade here regularly. We work with hunters, ag producers, 1031 exchangers, and timber-investment buyers. See our Farm & Recreational page for how we handle these specifically.
For homes in Pittsfield or Barry on the MLS, we can usually schedule a showing within 24-48 hours. Recreational acreage tours take a little more coordination — landowners often want notice, and walking a hundred-acre tract is a half-day project rather than a 30-minute showing. For out-of-state hunting buyers we routinely batch three or four properties into a single visit.
Whether you're three years out or three weeks from moving, an Apex agent will walk you through the Pike County market — what's available, what's coming, and what you should actually pay attention to. No pressure, no obligation, just a real conversation.
Every active home for sale inside each of Pike County’s school districts — with school-by-school context and live MLS data.
The largest district in Pike County; anchored by Pittsfield (the county seat).
Explore the district →West-Pike district anchored by Barry; near Mississippi River recreation.
Explore the district →Small central-Pike district covering Griggsville and Perry.
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