Carrollton, Missouri.
Typical home $153,362 (+8.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$476 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,314 +9%
- $141,048$153,362 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,545 +35%
- $113,817$153,362 since Sep 2021
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.
- Carrollton$805
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Carrollton, MO rose 8.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Carrollton, Carroll County, Missouri
Carrollton is a city of 3,514 people in Carroll County. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Carroll County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Carrollton is a small city and the center of Carroll County in northern Missouri. Its residents are younger on average than in many small towns, and more of them rent their homes than across much of rural Missouri, though most still own. Incomes run below the county's, and a larger share of people live in poverty than in many places, while typical home prices are modest. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and transport and warehouse work. Carroll County Hospital and Carrollton R-vii Schools are among the largest workplaces in town, along with United Medical Investors. Few people work from home, and a four-year degree is less common here than across the country as a whole. Jobs across the county slipped slightly last year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Fort Orleans, a historic fort site, is a longer drive away, as is Van Meter State Park, a protected area with a long stretch of Missouri woodland. Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge, also a longer drive, is a protected area of wetlands that draws people who like to watch birds. The Chariton River is another longer drive for anyone who wants time by the water.
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- 1,287households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carroll County had 2,653 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 13 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Carrollton weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carrollton
- Carroll County HospitalCritical access hospital191FTE
- Carrollton R-vii SchoolsSchool district117FTE
- United Medical InvestorsConvalescent homes or convalescent hospitals74
- Wood Shed Lumber & Hardware SupplyHardware stores60
- CarrolltonMail and parcel delivery23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 403 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Carrollton’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 Carroll County.
Carrollton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Carrollton$153,362
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Carrollton listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Carrollton28.52%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Carrollton25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Carrollton8
Zip codes with a Carrollton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Carrollton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.