Anderson, Missouri.
Typical home $169,703 (+4.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$481 (+117%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $7,062 +4%
- $162,641$169,703 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,159 +25%
- $135,544$169,703 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.
- Anderson$891
- 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 Anderson, MO rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Anderson, McDonald County, Missouri
Anderson is a city of 1,981 people in McDonald County. Half its households earn more than $53,966 a year and half less, against $52,375 across McDonald County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 53% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 47% are rented. Unemployment in McDonald County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Anderson is a small city and the seat of McDonald County in the southwest corner of Missouri. Household incomes run a little above the county's, though a noticeable part of residents live below the poverty line, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a short one.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. The largest workplaces in Anderson include CTB, which makes chicken feeders, Harps Food Store, a grocery, and Fairview Mills Anderson, which blends animal feed. Across McDonald County, unemployment has eased over the past year and the number of jobs has grown slightly. Few people work from home.
Things to do. Big Sugar Creek State Park and the creek itself are a short drive away, as is Jacobs Cavern, an archaeological site. A longer drive brings you to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and to George Washington Carver National Monument. Winters are cold and the summers are warm, with some snow in the colder months and a fair amount of rain across the year.
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- 940households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McDonald County had 5,739 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 9 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Anderson weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Anderson
- CTBChicken feeders manufacturing29
- Harps Food StoreRetail grocery26
- Fairview Mills AndersonBlending animal feed24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 79 people in all. 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Anderson’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 McDonald County.
Anderson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Anderson$169,703
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Anderson 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Anderson18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Anderson6
Zip codes with a Anderson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Anderson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.