Browning, Missouri.
Typical home $177,665 (+8.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$410 (+78%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $14,379 +9%
- $163,286$177,665 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.
- Browning$933
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Browning, MO rose 8.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Browning, Linn County, Missouri
Browning is a city of 219 people in Linn County. Unemployment in Linn County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Linn 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Browning is a very small city in Linn County, Missouri, with far fewer people than most places that call themselves a city. Homes here cost less than the typical American home, and the county's household incomes sit below the national picture. Winters are cold, with January highs staying near freezing, and summers turn warm, with July the hottest month; moisture comes as a mix of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and shops also employing many. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and few work from home. Across Linn County, some of the biggest workplaces are Walsworth Publishing, Moore Fans and Brookfield R-III Schools. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. Bear Branch and Plumb Branch, both small rivers, are a short drive away for time by the water. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Pershing State Park, a protected area, and to the Walt Disney Hometown Museum, which suits an afternoon indoors.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 5%work from home
What people in Linn County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Linn County had 4,083 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 66°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chillicothe Ene weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Linn County
- Walsworth Publishing323117 books printing334
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters174
- Moore FansVentilating fans, industrial and commercial-type, manufacturing138
- Brookfield FabricatingFabricated structural metal manufacturing136
- Brookfield R-iii SchoolsSchool district136FTE
- Varsity SpiritUniforms, band, cut and sewn from purchased fabric133
- Life Care Center of BrookfieldSkilled nursing facilities124
- Pershing Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital106FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,625 people in all across the county; Browning has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Browning’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 Linn County.
Browning home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Browning$177,665
- 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 Browning address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Browning — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.