Farmington, Missouri.
Typical home $261,223 (+4.7% in a year), asking rent $1,261 . Farmington, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$782 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,643 +5%
- $249,580$261,223 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,548 +30%
- $200,675$261,223 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.
- Farmington$1,371
- 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 Farmington, MO rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri
Farmington is a city of 18,217 people in St. Francois County. Half its households earn more than $53,729 a year and half less, against $57,477 across St. Francois County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Farmington is a small city and the seat of St. Francois County in southeast Missouri. Household incomes here run a little below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in much of the country. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, factories, restaurants and hotels also employing a good share. Among the largest workplaces in Farmington are Farmington R-vii Schools, Parkland Health Center - Farmington and Walmart. The typical commute is fairly short, and a smaller group of residents work from home.
Things to do. St. Joe State Park and the Missouri Mines State Historic Site are both a short drive away, offering protected parkland and a look at the area's mining past. Hawn State Park is a longer drive, and is another protected area for those willing to go a bit farther. Creeks such as Wolf Creek and Back Creek also lie close by.
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- 6,589households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents 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, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Farmington
- SmmhcPsychiatric hospital774FTE
- US Tool Group - FarmingtonMagnetic forming machines, metalworking, manufacturing717
- Farmington R-vii SchoolsSchool district540FTE
- Parkland Health Center - FarmingtonGeneral hospital521FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters440
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter135
- Menards"home centers"132
- Farmington Presbyterian Manor of Mid AmericaAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities112
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,054 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Earthquakesrelatively high in parts of FarmingtonRelatively moderate
- Hailrelatively high in parts of FarmingtonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Farmington’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.
Farmington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Farmington$261,223
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Farmington listings, and the typical home goes pending in 16 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Farmington29.13%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Farmington16
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Farmington90
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Farmington32
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Farmington$298,723
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Farmington97.28%
Zip codes with a Farmington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Farmington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.