Exeter, Missouri.
Typical home $198,010 (+4.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$610 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,173 +5%
- $188,837$198,010 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,592 +38%
- $143,418$198,010 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.
- Exeter$1,039
- 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 Exeter, MO rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Exeter, Barry County, Missouri
Exeter is a city of 733 people in Barry County. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Exeter is a small city in Barry County, in the Missouri Ozarks. It is a place where people tend to know one another, and the household incomes across Barry County are modest, with a fair number of residents living below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and homes here are valued well below what is typical for the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and frosty nights, while July is the warmest month and brings hot days, and the year brings plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly 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, along with Schreiber Foods Monett, a cheese maker. Jobs across the county slipped a little last year, and unemployment there is somewhat lower than a year earlier. Most people have a short drive to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. The nearest outing is Roaring River State Park, a protected area only a short drive away, with the river and Ozark hills it is known for. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, one of the best known museums in the region. Pea Ridge National Military Park, a historic battlefield site, is also a longer drive away. Beaver Lake, a large reservoir, is another longer trip for time on the water.
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- 269households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 5%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; Exeter has one 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 Exeter’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.
Exeter home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Exeter$198,010
- 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.
- Exeter4
Zip codes with a Exeter address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Exeter — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.