Fredericktown, Missouri.
Typical home $178,525 (+4.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$543 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,441 +4%
- $171,084$178,525 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,723 +30%
- $137,803$178,525 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.
- Fredericktown$937
- 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 Fredericktown, MO rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fredericktown, Madison County, Missouri
Fredericktown is a city of 4,429 people in Madison County. Half its households earn more than $49,375 a year and half less, against $54,434 across Madison County. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Madison County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fredericktown is a small city and the seat of Madison County, Missouri. Incomes here run below the county's as a whole, and most homes are lived in by their owners. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults than not, and the typical drive to work is short.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care employ more of the town's residents than any other field, followed by shops, manufacturing, and transport and warehousing. Among the largest workplaces in Fredericktown are Fredericktown R-I Schools, Madison Medical Center and Harp's Food Store. Work in the county has slipped a little over the past year, and unemployment in Madison County is lower than a year ago.
Things to do. Goose Creek and Village Creek run in or beside town, and Slater Branch is a short drive away, so there is creek water close at hand for walking beside or fishing. For a longer outing, Hawn State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away, as is St. Joe State Park. Winters are cold with some snow, summers are hot, and the year is fairly wet.
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- 1,793households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 17 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 3,552 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 65°. About 9 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fredericktown weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fredericktown
- Fredericktown R-I SchoolsSchool district264FTE
- Madison Medical CenterCritical access hospital140FTE
- Harp's Food StoreRetail grocery63
- Madison County Sheltered WorkshopSheltered workshops35
- FredericktownMail and parcel delivery23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 121 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Inland floodingVery 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 Fredericktown’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 Madison County.
Fredericktown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fredericktown$178,525
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Fredericktown 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.
- Fredericktown20.49%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fredericktown68
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fredericktown16
Zip codes with a Fredericktown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fredericktown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.