Battlefield, Missouri.
Typical home $308,641 (+4.2% in a year). Springfield, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$934 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,466 +4%
- $296,175$308,641 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,858 +30%
- $236,783$308,641 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.
- Battlefield$1,620
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Battlefield, MO rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Battlefield, Greene County, Missouri
Battlefield is a city of 5,990 people in Greene County. Half its households earn more than $94,542 a year and half less, against $61,479 across Greene County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Greene County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Battlefield is a city in Greene County, Missouri, where most homes are lived in by their owners and incomes run well above the county's. Residents tend to be somewhat older than in many places, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and summers warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with banks, insurance and property, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services also well represented. Across Greene County, some of the largest workplaces are Lester E. Cox Medical Centers, Mercy Hospital Springfield and Missouri State University-Springfield. A fair number of people work from home, and the typical commute is a modest one.
Things to do. Wilson's Creek National Battlefield, a historic site, lies in or beside town, and Riverbluff Cave, a museum, is just as close. A short drive away is Dickerson Park Zoo, and Fantastic Caverns, a tourist attraction, is a longer drive away.
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- 2,535households
- 44%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greene County had 179,452 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Springfield Wbo weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greene County
- Lester E. Cox Medical CentersHospitals, general medical and surgical11,485
- CoxhealthGeneral hospital7,188FTE
- Mercy Hospital SpringfieldGeneral hospital3,872FTE
- Missouri State University-SpringfieldUniversity or college2,894
- Springfield R-xii SchoolsSchool district2,875FTE
- CoxHealthHospitals, specialty2,836
- The Arc of the OzarksGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability1,754
- Ozarks Technical Community CollegeUniversity or college1,597
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 383 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 62,585 people in all across the county; Battlefield has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of BattlefieldRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of BattlefieldRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Battlefield’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Greene County and the Springfield, MO metro.
Battlefield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Battlefield$308,641
- 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 3 Battlefield 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.
- Battlefield33.17%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Battlefield28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Battlefield13
Zip codes with a Battlefield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Battlefield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.