Ironton, Missouri.
Typical home $131,678 (+5.0% in a year). Farmington, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$426 (+161%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,285 +5%
- $125,393$131,678 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,484 +29%
- $102,195$131,678 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.
- Ironton$691
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Ironton, MO rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ironton, Iron County, Missouri
Ironton is a city of 1,475 people in Iron County. Half its households earn more than $46,750 a year and half less, against $48,850 across Iron County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Iron County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ironton is a small city and the seat of Iron County, Missouri. Its people are younger than in many small towns, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a typical home is valued well under what many Americans would expect to pay. Winters are cold and summers warm, with some snow in the colder months and plenty of rain across the year.
Work. Across Iron County, the largest workplaces are Arcadia Valley R-II Schools, Iron County Hospital and Belleview Investment Group, which runs skilled nursing facilities. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, the building trades and professional and business services. Jobs across the county slipped last year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier. Most people commute to work rather than working from home.
Things to do. The Battle of Pilot Knob State Historic Site, a Civil War fort, sits in or beside town, and Fort Curtis is another fort nearby. A short drive away are Elephant Rocks State Park and Taum Sauk Mountain State Park, both protected areas good for walking and views. Lake Killarney, a reservoir, is also a short drive away.
Report a mistake
- 681households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Iron County had 3,425 jobs in 2025, 1.4% 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, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Iron County
- Arcadia Valley R-II SchoolsSchool district137FTE
- Iron County HospitalCritical access hospital104FTE
- Belleview Investment GroupSkilled nursing facilities86
- Iron Co. C-4 SchoolsSchool district64FTE
- South Iron Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district56FTE
- Belleview R-iii SchoolsSchool district40FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 86 people in all across the county; Ironton has one 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ironton’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 Iron County and the Farmington, MO metro.
Ironton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ironton$131,678
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Ironton 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.
- Ironton20.80%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ironton25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ironton4
Zip codes with a Ironton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ironton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.