Butterfield, Missouri.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$768 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Living in Butterfield, Barry County, Missouri
Butterfield is a city of 378 people in Barry County. Half its households earn more than $54,375 a year and half less, against $58,346 across Barry County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Barry County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Barry County work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Butterfield is a very small city in Barry County, Missouri, where most people know one another by sight if not by name. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a somewhat larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is typical across the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and some people work from home.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Barry County, the largest workplaces include Cassville Processing and Tyson Poultry, both poultry processors, and Schreiber Foods Monett, a cheese maker. Unemployment in the county has eased a little over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Pogue Creek, a river, is a short drive away, and is the closest water to explore. A longer drive brings you to Roaring River State Park, a protected area, and to the James River, which is good for a day by the water. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm; the town sees a fair amount of rain and melted snow over the year.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 10%work from home
What people in Barry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Barry County had 13,017 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cassville weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Barry County
- Cassville ProcessingPoultry processing798
- Tyson PoultryPoultry processing595
- Miracle Recreation Equipment CoStairs, metal, manufacturing436
- Schreiber Foods MonettCheese manufacturing373
- Monett R-I SchoolsSchool district351FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters286
- Cox-monett HospitalCritical access hospital249FTE
- Cassville R-IV SchoolsSchool district244FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 16,412 people in all across the county; Butterfield 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Butterfield’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Barry County.
Butterfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Butterfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Butterfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.