Fordland, Missouri.
Typical home $279,202 (+6.9% in a year). Springfield, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$844 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,027 +7%
- $261,174$279,202 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,285 +29%
- $215,917$279,202 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.
- Fordland$1,465
- 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 Fordland, MO rose 6.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fordland, Webster County, Missouri
Fordland is a city of 778 people in Webster County. Half its households earn more than $53,571 a year and half less, against $71,155 across Webster County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Webster County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Webster 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fordland is a small city in Webster County, in the Missouri Ozarks. Incomes here run well below the county's as a whole, and poverty is more common than most people would expect to find. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with only light snowfall, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Webster County, the largest workplaces include Walmart, Marshfield R-I Schools and Tyler Couplings. Commutes are fairly long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Several small creeks, including Stewart Creek, Teague Creek and Dry Creek, are a short drive away. For a longer outing, Fantastic Caverns is a tourist attraction a longer drive away, and Fellows Lake is a reservoir that is also a longer drive from town.
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- 244households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Webster County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Webster County had 8,630 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 5 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marshfield Wsw weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Webster County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters328
- Marshfield R-I SchoolsSchool district325FTE
- Tyler CouplingsPlumbing fixtures, metal, manufacturing297
- Logan-rogersville R-viii SchoolsSchool district257FTE
- UnderCoverLuggage racks, car top, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing243
- Sho-Me Power Electric CooperativeTransmission of electric power157
- XPOFreight transportation146
- Hutchens Industries.comTruck trailer manufacturing138
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,035 people in all across the county; Fordland has one 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fordland’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Webster County and the Springfield, MO metro.
Fordland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fordland$279,202
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Fordland listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Fordland33.59%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fordland22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fordland6
Zip codes with a Fordland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fordland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.