Altamont, Missouri.
Typical home $281,629 (+8.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$698 (+89%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $20,956 +8%
- $260,672$281,629 since Sep 2025
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.
- Altamont$1,478
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Altamont, MO rose 8.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Altamont, Daviess County, Missouri
Altamont is a village of 171 people in Daviess County. Unemployment in Daviess County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Daviess County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Altamont is a very small village in Daviess County, Missouri, with far fewer residents than most towns. Homes here are valued well above what the county's modest incomes might suggest, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and the town sees a fair amount of snow. Summers are warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Daviess County, the largest workplaces include several school districts, among them Gallatin R-V Schools and Pattonsburg R-II Schools, along with Trexcon, which runs convenience stores with gasoline stations. Unemployment in the county is low and a little lower than a year earlier, though the county had fewer jobs last year than the year before. Few adults in the village hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home. The typical commute is a fairly short one.
Things to do. The countryside around Altamont is crossed by creeks, and several are a short drive away, including Lost Creek, Honey Creek and Big Creek. Wallace State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away and gives a fuller day out among woods and water.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Daviess County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Daviess County had 1,839 jobs in 2025, 2.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 20 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gallatin 1W weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Daviess County
- Gallatin R-V SchoolsSchool district102FTE
- Pattonsburg R-II SchoolsSchool district38FTE
- TrexconConvenience food with gasoline stations37
- Tri-county R-vii SchoolsSchool district30FTE
- Winston R-VI SchoolsSchool district30FTE
- North Daviess R-iii SchoolsSchool district21FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 37 people in all across the county; Altamont has none of its own. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Altamont’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Daviess County.
Altamont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Altamont$281,629
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Altamont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Altamont — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.