Fremont, Missouri.
Typical home $183,264 (+12.6% in a year). Poplar Bluff, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$538 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,472 +13%
- $162,792$183,264 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,227 +26%
- $145,038$183,264 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.
- Fremont$962
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Fremont, MO rose 12.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fremont, Carter County, Missouri
Fremont, in Carter County, had 43 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Carter County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Carter County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fremont is a small community in Carter County, in the hilly Ozark country of southeastern Missouri, where people tend to know one another. Winters are cold, with highs that stay low and nights that fall well below freezing, while summers are warm and hot. The year is also quite wet, with a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in local shops. Unemployment has risen a little over the past year, and there are somewhat fewer jobs than there were before.
Things to do. Current River Cavern, a tourist attraction, is a short drive away, and Rogers Creek, a river, is also a short drive off. Ozark National Scenic Riverways, a protected area, lies a longer drive away.
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- 92%below the poverty line
What people in Carter County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carter County had 1,448 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 64°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Winona Southwest weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carter County
- East Carter Co. R-II SchoolsSchool district92FTE
- Van Buren R-I SchoolsSchool district77FTE
- Royal Oak EnterprisesCharcoal manufacturing62
- HR Quadri ContractorsHighway construction46
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior32
- McClain Forest ProductsDimension lumber, hardwood, resawing purchased lumber24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 132 people in all across the county; Fremont has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- LightningVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fremont’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Carter County and the Poplar Bluff, MO metro.
Fremont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fremont$183,264
- 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 Fremont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fremont — 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.