Bunker, Missouri.
Typical home $171,048 (+5.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$521 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,312 +6%
- $161,736$171,048 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,825 +36%
- $126,223$171,048 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.
- Bunker$898
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Bunker, MO rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bunker, Shannon County, Missouri
Bunker is a city of 295 people in Shannon County. Unemployment in Shannon County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Shannon 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bunker is a very small city in Shannon County, in the Missouri Ozarks, where neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold but not severe, with only a little snow in a year. Summers are hot, and rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and shops. Across Shannon County, some of the largest workplaces are Hardwoods of Missouri, which makes hardwood and parquet flooring, and the school districts of Eminence, Winona and Bunker. Household incomes in the county sit modestly, and jobs across the county grew slightly last year.
Things to do. Bills Creek and Adair Creek are small streams within a short drive, good for a quiet afternoon by the water. A longer drive brings you to Mark Twain National Forest, a large protected area of woods and trails, and to Ozark National Scenic Riverways, which protects some of the region's clear rivers. Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park is also a longer drive away.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
What people in Shannon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shannon County had 1,600 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 65°. About 6 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Round Spring 2SW weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shannon County
- South Central MO CAACommunity action service agencies231
- Hardwoods of MissouriParquet flooring, hardwood, manufacturing113
- Eminence R-I SchoolsSchool district88FTE
- Rock Point Nursing CenterSkilled nursing facilities72
- Winona R-iii SchoolsSchool district71FTE
- Bunker R-iii SchoolsSchool district46FTE
- Royal Oak EnterprisesTreating wood products with creosote or other preservatives40
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 456 people in all across the county; Bunker has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively 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 Bunker’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. 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 Shannon County.
Bunker home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bunker$171,048
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bunker address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bunker — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.