Doe Run, Missouri.
Typical home $193,111 (+7.9% in a year). Farmington, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$564 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,162 +8%
- $178,950$193,111 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,635 +20%
- $160,476$193,111 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.
- Doe Run$1,014
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Doe Run, MO rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Doe Run, St. Francois County, Missouri
Doe Run, in St. Francois County, had 737 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in St. Francois County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. Francois 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Doe Run is a very small community in St. Francois County, Missouri, in the lead-mining country of the Old Lead Belt. Incomes across the county run below those of the state's larger metropolitan areas, and few adults in town hold a four-year degree. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and very few people work from home. Winters are cold, with freezing nights through the coldest weeks of January, and a little snow falls most years. Summers are warm, with hot afternoons in July, and rain and melted snow are fairly plentiful through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, or in the building trades. Across St. Francois County, some of the largest workplaces are Parkland Health Center in Farmington, the Farmington R-vii Schools district, and US Tool Group in Farmington. Unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year earlier, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Much of the appeal is outdoors. St. Joe State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Missouri Mines State Historic Site, which looks back on the area's mining past. Allen Branch, a small river, runs in or beside town, and Wolf Creek is a short drive away. Those willing to go farther can reach Hawn State Park, also a protected area, on a longer drive.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What people in St. Francois County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Francois County had 23,012 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 9 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Farmington weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Francois County
- SmmhcPsychiatric hospital774FTE
- US Tool Group - FarmingtonMagnetic forming machines, metalworking, manufacturing717
- Farmington R-vii SchoolsSchool district540FTE
- Parkland Health Center - FarmingtonGeneral hospital521FTE
- North St. Francois Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district448FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters440
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters403
- Mineral Area CollegeTwo-year college354
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 45 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,906 people in all across the county; Doe Run has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Doe Run’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 St. Francois County and the Farmington, MO metro.
Doe Run home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Doe Run$193,111
- 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 Doe Run address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Doe Run — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.