Atlanta, Missouri.
Typical home $228,341 (+4.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$12 (+1%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $9,508 +4%
- $218,833$228,341 since Sep 2025
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.
- Atlanta$1,199
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Atlanta, MO rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Atlanta, Macon County, Missouri
Atlanta is a city of 379 people in Macon County. Unemployment in Macon County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Macon 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Atlanta is a very small town in Macon County, Missouri, where most people know their neighbors. Homes here are typically valued below what is common across much of the country, and household incomes in the county are somewhat modest. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing also employing many. Across Macon County, some of the largest workplaces are Conagra Brands, Samaritan Memorial Hospital and Macon CO. R-I Schools. The drive to work tends to be long, since many jobs are in other towns, and few adults here hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. Long Branch State Park is a protected area a short drive away, a good choice for time outdoors near the water. Titus Creek, also a short drive away, is a small waterway for a quiet afternoon. Thousand Hills State Park is another protected area, a longer drive away, for a fuller day out.
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- 178households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
What people in Macon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Macon County had 4,823 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Long Branch Rsvr weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Macon County
- Conagra BrandsFrozen specialty food manufacturing364
- Samaritan Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital158FTE
- Macon Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district134FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores116
- Macon Health Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities72
- La Plata R-II SchoolsSchool district59FTE
- Sydenstricker Nobbe PartnersAgricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers54
- POET biorefining- MaconEthanol, nonpotable, manufacturing47
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 810 people in all across the county; Atlanta has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Atlanta’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Macon County.
Atlanta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Atlanta$228,341
- 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 Atlanta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Atlanta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.