Billings, Missouri.
Typical home $329,271 (+4.6% in a year). Springfield, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,072 (+163%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,457 +5%
- $314,815$329,271 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $101,031 +44%
- $228,240$329,271 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.
- Billings$1,728
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Billings, MO rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Billings, Christian County, Missouri
Billings is a city of 1,084 people in Christian County. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Christian County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Billings is a small city in Christian County, Missouri, with a population that makes it feel close-knit. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and homes here are valued well below what many buyers in bigger Missouri cities would expect. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might find in larger Missouri cities.
Work. Residents mostly work in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. Across Christian County, the largest workplaces include Ozark R-VI Schools, Nixa Public Schools and Walmart. The commute to work is longer than in many places, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. Wilson's Creek National Battlefield, an archaeological site and Civil War landmark, is a short drive away, as are the creeks that run nearby, Terrell Creek and Wilsons Creek. A longer drive brings you to Silver Dollar City, an amusement park, and to Fantastic Caverns, a tourist attraction. Winters are cold with some snow, and summers are hot.
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- 449households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 37 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Christian County had 20,884 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 67°. About 12 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Billings 1SW weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Christian County
- Ozark R-VI SchoolsSchool district1,033FTE
- Nixa Public SchoolsSchool district706FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters434
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters356
- Spot On DeliveryExpress delivery services185
- Clever R-V SchoolsSchool district174FTE
- The Kinetic Group TKGShotgun shells manufacturing159
- G5 EnterprisesFoam insulation installation147
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,585 people in all across the county; Billings has one of its own. School districts come 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Billings’ 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 Christian County and the Springfield, MO metro.
Billings home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Billings$329,271
- 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 4 Billings 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.
- Billings26.93%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Billings29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Billings9
Zip codes with a Billings address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Billings — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.