Frankford, Missouri.
Typical home $279,197 (+10.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$936 (+177%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $27,400 +11%
- $251,797$279,197 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $78,632 +39%
- $200,565$279,197 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.
- Frankford$1,465
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Frankford, MO rose 10.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Frankford, Pike County, Missouri
Frankford is a city of 343 people in Pike County. Unemployment in Pike County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pike 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Frankford is a very small city in Pike County, Missouri, where residents are younger on average than in many small towns and few adults hold a four-year degree. Homes are valued well above what the county's incomes might suggest, and the daily commute is short. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops also employing many. Across Pike County, the largest workplaces include Walmart, Bowling Green R-I Schools and Pike County Memorial Hospital. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. A short drive away, Crooked Creek and Spencer Creek offer small waterways to explore close to home. A longer drive leads to the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum, a museum devoted to the writer's early life, and to Mark Twain Cave, a well-known tourist attraction.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 18 mintypical commute
What people in Pike County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pike County had 5,219 jobs in 2025, 3.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Saverton L&d weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pike County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters201
- Bowling Green R-I SchoolsSchool district183FTE
- Pike County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital158FTE
- Ruth Jensen VillageGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability100
- Louisiana R-II SchoolsSchool district83FTE
- Legion Industrial74
- The Aviary Recovery Center - Summit Behavioral HealthSubstance abuse halfway houses67
- Pike Co. R-iii SchoolsSchool district61FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 745 people in all across the county; Frankford has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Frankford’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 Pike County.
Frankford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Frankford$279,197
- 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 Frankford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Frankford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.