Farber, Missouri.
Typical home $128,130 (+19.1% in a year). Mexico, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$379 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,567 +19%
- $107,563$128,130 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,728 +29%
- $99,402$128,130 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.
- Farber$673
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Farber, MO rose 19.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Farber, Audrain County, Missouri
Farber is a city of 255 people in Audrain County. Unemployment in Audrain County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Audrain 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Farber is a very small city in Audrain County, Missouri, with far fewer people than most places that carry the name of a city. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and summers warm, with rain and melted snow adding up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Audrain County, some of the largest workplaces are Mexico 59 Schools, Spartan Light Metal Products and Western Smokehouse Partners. Unemployment in the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Bear Branch and Johns Branch, both small waterways, are a short drive away and suit a quiet afternoon outdoors. For a longer outing, Mark Twain State Park, a protected area, and the Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site are a longer drive away, and both are among the best known places in the region.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 5%work from home
What people in Audrain County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Audrain County had 7,910 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Vandalia weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Audrain County
- Mexico 59 SchoolsSchool district368FTE
- Spartan Light Metal ProductsNonferrous die-casting foundries291
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters289
- Creative Food Ingredients-Missouri100
- Soteria FLexiblesFood storage bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing93
- Western Smokehouse PartnersSmoked meats made from purchased carcasses88
- HarbisonWalker International VandaliaAlumina fused refractories manufacturing80
- Van-far R-I SchoolsSchool district75FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,668 people in all across the county; Farber 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Farber’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 Audrain County and the Mexico, MO metro.
Farber home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Farber$128,130
- 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 Farber address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Farber — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.