The story of this market
The typical home in Monroe County, Missouri sells for about $880,000, or $174 per square foot.
Prices are up +7% from a year ago, so sellers still have some momentum. Homes take about 84 days to sell, which is slow. Over the long run, values in this county have grown 110% since 2000. The biggest natural hazard here is lightning, which FEMA rates very high. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $962 a month.
HUD sets the fair market rent for a 2-bedroom at $962 a month. FEMA's National Risk Index rates overall hazard risk here as Relatively Moderate.
Price climate
Every year of price change, 2000–2025
+8.7%
2025
Each stripe is one year's median price change across the area's census tracts (FHFA repeat-sales index). Deep blue is a strong gain year, red a falling year. Best: 2007 (+15.6%). Worst: 2008 (-5.1%). Hover to read a year.
Monthly price momentum
Home values since 2015
+3.7%
MO · past 12 months
Freddie Mac House Price Index, single-family homes, monthly through 2026-08. Each line starts at 100 in January 2015, so a reading of 180 means prices are up 80% since then.
Rent benchmark
Fair market rent by size
$1,146
3-bed / month
HUD Fair Market Rents, fiscal 2027, for this county. A typical rent for a modest unit, used to set housing-voucher payments.
Neighborhood price trend
Long-run price trend, 2000–2025
+8.7%
2025 change
FHFA repeat-sales index, median of 2 census tracts in this county (2000 = 100). Bars are each year's median change.
Natural hazard exposure
The area's risk shape
81
Relatively Moderate
FEMA National Risk Index. Each spoke is a hazard ranked nationally, where 100 is the most exposed. Expected annual loss: $6,952,909.
Mortgage activity
Home lending in this county
76.8%
2018 approval rate
| Year | Applications | Loans made | Approval | Investor share | Median home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 191 | 98 | 76.8% | 8.7% | $115,000 |
CFPB Home Mortgage Disclosure Act records: every mortgage application reported by lenders for homes in this county. Approval rate is approved ÷ decided (withdrawn and incomplete files excluded). Investor share and home value are the median census tract.
Monroe County, Missouri
The Monroe County housing market is currently balanced with 6.6 months of supply. Prices have seen a 7.0% year-over-year increase, though the market remains sensitive to affordability constraints.
No ARED distress-ledger coverage for this county yet — the foreclosure ingest rotates the national county directory, and filings appear here once the county's posted notices are read. Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.
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Median prices moved up 0.0% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 3 days on market with 0.0 months of supply — a fast-moving market.
0% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 99.99% of asking — demand is running ahead of supply.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 3.3% · poverty 14.2% — a stable, low-distress profile.
ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Aggregate published statistics for this county — never individual records, and never an attribute of any individual property or resident.
Deterministic aggregate of 2 researched ZIP reports — sales_count-weighted (population fallback); per point, children lacking the value or its weight are excluded. Tax rates, sentiment and context notes are tier-native and never roll.
Monroe County, Missouri — researched county-level history with a deterministic 1 / 3 / 5-year projection
Solid: researched ten-year history · dotted: 1 / 3 / 5-year projection extended from the historical 6.3%/yr trend — a deterministic estimate, not a published forecast or guarantee.
No researched properties in this county yet — the property base layer populates as property research runs, and each property feeds its ZIP's roll-up.
The county maintains a rural economic base with a 3.3% unemployment rate as of May 2026.
Property taxes are assessed at the county level; specific rates vary by local school and special district levies.
The local economy is primarily rural with a 3.3% unemployment rate as of May 2026.
Average insurance premiums are reported at approximately $4,380 annually.
Data sourced from Census Reporter and Data Commons.
applies when — Applies only in counties that have formally adopted the provisions of RSMo Section 137.082.
Allows for the assessment and taxation of newly constructed residential property starting the first month following occupancy, and pro rata removal from tax rolls for improvements destroyed by natural disaster.
RSMo Section 137.082.
Residential property is assessed at 19% of its true market value. The formula is: (Market Value * 0.19) * Local Tax Rate = Annual Tax Liability.
Established under Article X, Section 4(b) of the Missouri Constitution and RSMo Section 137.115.
Allows lenders to foreclose without court intervention via power of sale. Requires specific notice of default and intention to foreclose; prohibits deficiency judgments against owner-occupants in certain nonjudicial residential foreclosures.
Governed by RSMo Sections 443.290 to 443.440.
Governance registry — every jurisdiction re-researches on a rolling 90-day cycle. Property reports compose these inherited burdens into a per-parcel ledger with conditional determinations. Informational only — not legal advice.