Hartville, Missouri.
Typical home $218,419 (+6.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$661 (+136%) since Feb 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,712 +7%
- $204,707$218,419 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,820 +26%
- $173,599$218,419 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.
- Hartville$1,146
- 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 Hartville, MO rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hartville, Wright County, Missouri
Hartville is a city of 594 people in Wright County. Unemployment in Wright County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wright 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hartville is a very small city in the Ozarks and the seat of Wright County, where most days are quiet and neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are priced at a level that suits modest local incomes, which are below the typical figure for the country as a whole. Winters are cold, with only a little snow, and summers are hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. People who live here work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home, so most jobs mean traveling to a workplace. Across Wright County, some of the largest employers are Hutchens Industries, a truck trailer maker, along with Walmart and the local school districts, including Hartville R-II Schools. Unemployment has eased a little over the past year, and the number of jobs has grown only slightly.
Things to do. The Gasconade River runs in or beside town, so a walk or a spot to fish is close at hand. Clark Creek and Whetstone Creek are both a short drive away, and are the kind of small waterways that suit a quiet afternoon outdoors. For a longer day out, Finley Creek and the Big Piney River are a longer drive away.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 4%work from home
What people in Wright County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wright County had 4,678 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more 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 67°. About 8 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mansfield weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wright County
- Hutchens IndustriesTruck trailer manufacturing325
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters232
- Mountain Grove R-iii SchoolsSchool district231FTE
- Hartville R-II SchoolsSchool district189FTE
- Mansfield R-IV SchoolsSchool district112FTE
- Dura-LinePvc pipe manufacturing109
- Baker Creek Heirloom Seed CompanyLawn supply stores89
- Norwood R-I SchoolsSchool district62FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 834 people in all across the county; Hartville 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 stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hartville’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 Wright County.
Hartville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hartville$218,419
- 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 4 Hartville 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.
- Hartville26.48%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hartville21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hartville6
Zip codes with a Hartville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hartville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.