Buffalo, Missouri.
Typical home $214,863 (+6.3% in a year). Springfield, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$679 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,695 +6%
- $202,168$214,863 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,737 +33%
- $162,125$214,863 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.
- Buffalo$1,128
- 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 Buffalo, MO rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Buffalo, Dallas County, Missouri
Buffalo is a city of 3,290 people in Dallas County. Unemployment in Dallas County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dallas 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Buffalo is a small city in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri and the center of Dallas County. Homes here are priced modestly, and household incomes across the county run below the typical American household's. Winters are cold, with only a little snow, and summers turn hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Most residents who work are employed in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, the building trades or shops, and very few work from home. Among the biggest workplaces in Buffalo are the Dallas CO. R-I Schools district, Citizens Memorial Health Care Foundation and Walmart. Across the county, jobs grew over the past year, and unemployment has eased compared with a year ago.
Things to do. Several small streams, including Dousinbury Creek, Greasy Creek and Indian Creek, are a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive reaches Pomme de Terre Lake, a reservoir, and Bennett Spring State Park, a protected area, while Fantastic Caverns is a tourist attraction also a longer drive away.
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- 1,616households
- 4%work from home
What people in Dallas County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dallas County had 2,849 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 66°. About 9 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Buffalo 2N weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Buffalo
- Dallas Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district310FTE
- Citizens Memorial Health Care FoundationNursing homes140
- WalmartDiscount department stores88
- BuffaloMail and parcel delivery21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 249 people in all. 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 stormsVery high
- LightningVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Buffalo’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 Dallas County and the Springfield, MO metro.
Buffalo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Buffalo$214,863
- 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 Buffalo 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.
- Buffalo32.57%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Buffalo41
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Buffalo9
Zip codes with a Buffalo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Buffalo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.