Bethany, Missouri.
Typical home $134,959 (+6.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$417 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,746 +6%
- $127,213$134,959 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,270 +33%
- $101,689$134,959 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.
- Bethany$708
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Bethany, MO rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bethany, Harrison County, Missouri
Bethany is a city of 2,915 people in Harrison County. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Harrison County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bethany is a small city and the seat of Harrison County in northern Missouri. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with January highs a little above freezing and lows well below, while summers turn properly warm by July. Snow falls through the winter, and the year brings a fair amount of rain as well.
Work. People in Bethany work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government, and in professional and business services. Harrison County Community Hospital and Hy-Vee are among the largest workplaces in town, along with the Harrison County Sheltered Workshop Association. A good number of residents work from home, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places.
Things to do. Small streams such as Crabapple Branch and Shain Creek are a short drive away. For a longer outing, Crowder State Park and Nine Eagles State Park are both protected areas a longer drive from town, and make for a day among woods and water.
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- 1,242households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harrison County had 2,526 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 21 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bethany weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bethany
- Harrison County Community HospitalCritical access hospital165FTE
- Harrison County Sheltered Workshop AssociationSheltered workshops65
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores34
- Harrison County Group HomeGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability27
- BethanyMail and parcel delivery20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 146 people in all. Hospitals come 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 wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bethany’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 Harrison County.
Bethany home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bethany$134,959
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bethany18
Zip codes with a Bethany address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bethany — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.