Fairview, Missouri.
Typical home $235,188 (+4.4% in a year). Joplin, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$728 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,943 +4%
- $225,245$235,188 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,085 +31%
- $179,102$235,188 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.
- Fairview$1,234
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Fairview, MO rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fairview, Newton County, Missouri
Fairview is a town of 419 people in Newton County. Unemployment in Newton County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 8.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Newton County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fairview is a very small town in Newton County, in the southwest corner of Missouri. Homes here are valued below what many buyers would expect to pay in larger cities, and household incomes across the county are modest. Winters are cold, with snow that comes in modest amounts, and summers turn properly hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many people. Across Newton County, some of the largest workplaces are Freeman OAK Hill Health System, Joplin Schools and La-Z-Boy. The typical commute is a long one, and only a small share of people work from home. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Capps Creek and Pogue Creek are both rivers a short drive away, and the First Battle of Newtonia Historic District and the Second Battle of Newtonia Site, both historic battlefield sites, are close by too. For a longer outing, Roaring River State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Pea Ridge National Military Park is another historic site that takes a longer drive to reach.
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- 36 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Newton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Newton County had 23,014 jobs in 2025, 8.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 24°; warmest in August, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 7 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Monett 4SW weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newton County
- Freeman Oak Hill Health SystemGeneral hospital2,921FTE
- Joplin SchoolsSchool district1,182FTE
- Mercy Hospital JoplinGeneral hospital922FTE
- La-Z-BoyUpholstered furniture, household-type, custom, manufacturing850
- Neosho School DistrictSchool district666FTE
- Crowder CollegeTwo-year college618
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters421
- Heartland Pet Foods JoplinDog and cat food, manufacturing307
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 67 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,500 people in all across the county; Fairview 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fairview’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 Newton County and the Joplin, MO metro.
Fairview home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fairview$235,188
- 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.
- Fairview7
Zip codes with a Fairview address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fairview — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Fairview
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65734 | Purdy | 4,112 | — | $229,475 |
| 64861 | Rocky Comfort | 1,324 | — | $272,123 |
| 64842 | Fairview | 775 | — | $191,378 |