Bertrand, Missouri.
Typical home $120,164 (-3.8% in a year). Sikeston, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $67 (-10%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Down $4,723 -4%
- $124,887$120,164 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.
- Bertrand$631
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Bertrand, MO fell 3.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bertrand, Mississippi County, Missouri
Bertrand is a city of 718 people in Mississippi County. Half its households earn more than $54,688 a year and half less, against $48,160 across Mississippi County. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Mississippi County was 6.2% in August 2026, and the county had 4.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mississippi County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bertrand is a small city in Mississippi County, Missouri, with a population on the older side. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run above the county's. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few people work from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, then farming, forestry and mining, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Mississippi County, the largest workplaces include East Prairie R-II Schools and Charleston R-I Schools. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The nearest green space is Tilles Memorial City Park, a short drive away. Farther afield, Big Oak Tree State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Horseshoe Lake is a lake that is also a longer drive away. Winters are cold with little snow, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
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- 312households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in Mississippi County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mississippi County had 2,952 jobs in 2025, 4.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 3 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sikeston Pwr Station weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mississippi County
- East Prairie R-II SchoolsSchool district156FTE
- Charleston R-I SchoolsSchool district84FTE
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
- Strong windVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bertrand’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 Mississippi County and the Sikeston, MO metro.
Bertrand home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bertrand$120,164
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bertrand6
Zip codes with a Bertrand address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bertrand — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.