Des Arc, Missouri.
Typical home $150,110 (+1.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$390 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,107 +1%
- $148,003$150,110 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,182 +5%
- $142,929$150,110 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.
- Des Arc$788
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 71 years.
Typical home values in Des Arc, MO rose 1.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Des Arc, Wayne County, Missouri
Des Arc is a village of 131 people in Wayne County. Unemployment in Wayne County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wayne County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Des Arc is a village in Wayne County, Missouri, and a very small one, where people are likely to know one another by name. Incomes in the county run below the Missouri level, and fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in most towns. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in transport and warehousing. Across Wayne County, the largest workplaces include Clearwater R-I Schools, Greenville R-II Schools and Americare Senior Living. The county has barely added jobs in the past year, and unemployment there is a little lower than it was a year earlier. The typical trip to work is short.
Things to do. Goose Creek runs in or beside town, so the water is close by. Sam A. Baker State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and suits a day of walking or picnicking. For a longer outing, Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park is a longer drive away, and its river and rocks are among the best known in the region.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
What people in Wayne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 2,272 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clearwater Dam weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wayne County
- Clearwater R-I SchoolsSchool district130FTE
- Greenville R-II SchoolsSchool district78FTE
- Americare Senior LivingHealthcare69
- Greenville Healthcare CenterSkilled nursing facilities62
- Impact FisheriesFish manufacturing54
- Fine LaboratoriesHarness assemblies for electronic use manufacturing52
- Kerry IngredientsBeverage bases manufacturing36
- Services for Extended EmploymentSheltered workshops29
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 324 people in all across the county; Des Arc has none 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Des Arc’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 Wayne County.
Des Arc home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Des Arc$150,110
- 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 Des Arc address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Des Arc — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.