Dunnegan, Missouri.
Typical home $340,068 (-2.1% in a year). Springfield, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$934 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,141 -2%
- $347,209$340,068 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,792 +23%
- $277,276$340,068 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.
- Dunnegan$1,785
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Dunnegan, MO fell 2.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dunnegan, Polk County, Missouri
The Census does not count Dunnegan on its own, so the figures here are Polk County's. Half the county's households earn more than $59,647 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 72% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Polk County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Polk County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dunnegan is a small town in Polk County, in the southwest of Missouri. Winters here are cold, with snow that comes in modest amounts, and summers are warm, with fairly heavy rain falling across the year. Most homes across Polk County are lived in by their owners, and the typical home value sits well below the national figure.
Work. Across Polk County, most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in factories, or in professional and business services. Jobs in the county shrank over the past year, though joblessness has eased compared with a year earlier. Few people work from home, so most commute by car to work.
Things to do. Pomme de Terre Lake is a reservoir a longer drive away and is the best known of the nearby places, good for time on the water. Stockton State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Barren Creek, a river, is a short drive away for a quieter outing.
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- 12,059households
- 38.1median age
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Polk County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Polk County had 9,202 jobs in 2025, 3.2% fewer 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 90° and lows near 70°. About 7 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stockton Dam weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Polk County
- Citizens Memorial Hospital DistrictGeneral hospital995FTE
- Southwest Baptist UniversityUniversity or college474
- Bolivar R-I SchoolsSchool district384FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters365
- White River Marine GroupBoat yards215
- BD Health Ag 1Agriculture production or harvesting crews205
- Citizens Memorial Health Care FoundationNursing homes123
- Citizens Memorial Healthcare FacilityNursing homes123
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,737 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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 stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Polk County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Polk County and the Springfield, MO metro.
Dunnegan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dunnegan$340,068
- 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.
- Dunnegan7
Zip codes with a Dunnegan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dunnegan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.