Fisk, Missouri.
Typical home $140,926 (+17.9% in a year). Poplar Bluff, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$388 (+110%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $21,440 +18%
- $119,486$140,926 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,649 +28%
- $110,277$140,926 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.
- Fisk$740
- 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 Fisk, MO rose 17.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fisk, Butler County, Missouri
Fisk is a city of 312 people in Butler County. Unemployment in Butler County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Butler 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fisk is a very small city in Butler County, in the southeastern corner of Missouri, and it is the kind of place where people tend to know one another. Homes here cost less than the typical American home, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold but short of harsh, with January the coldest month, while summers turn hot by July, and a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Butler County, the largest workplaces include Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, Poplar Bluff R-I Schools and Briggs & Stratton Poplar Bluff. The county has seen unemployment ease a little over the past year, though it has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is Lake Wappapello, a reservoir a longer drive away, and Lake Wappapello State Park, also a longer drive away, sits beside it. Mingo National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area a longer drive away, is another option for time outdoors. Hydro Adventures, an amusement park, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
What people in Butler County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Butler County had 17,959 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 70°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Poplar Bluff Municipal Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Butler County
- Poplar Bluff Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital836FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs759
- Poplar Bluff R-I SchoolsSchool district627FTE
- Briggs & Stratton Poplar BluffGasoline engines manufacturing603
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters426
- Three Rivers CollegeTwo-year college265
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores144
- Robertson ContractorsResurfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway137
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,672 people in all across the county; Fisk has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), 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 stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fisk’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 Butler County and the Poplar Bluff, MO metro.
Fisk home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fisk$140,926
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Fisk address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fisk — 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.