Forsyth, Missouri.
Typical home $209,177 (+0.7% in a year). Branson, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$616 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,374 +1%
- $207,803$209,177 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,440 +22%
- $171,737$209,177 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.
- Forsyth$1,098
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Forsyth, MO rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Forsyth, Taney County, Missouri
Forsyth is a city of 2,730 people in Taney County. Half its households earn more than $45,824 a year and half less, against $56,497 across Taney County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Taney County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Taney County work in restaurants and hotels, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Forsyth is a small city in the Missouri Ozarks, in Taney County. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run below the county's. Winters are cool and mostly mild, with only a little snow, summers are hot, and rain falls through the year.
Work. Many residents work in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Forsyth are Forsyth R-III Schools, Wyndham Vacation Ownership and Deerland Probiotics & Enzymes. The typical commute is moderate, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Swan Creek runs in or beside town, and Beaver Creek is a short drive away. Lake Taneycomo, a reservoir, is also a short drive away. Table Rock Lake, a larger reservoir, and Silver Dollar City, an amusement park, are a longer drive away.
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- 1,282households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Taney County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Taney County had 28,673 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 67°. About 7 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ozark Beach weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Forsyth
- Forsyth R-iii SchoolsSchool district233FTE
- Wyndham Vacation OwnershipHotels and motels82
- RpcsGrocery stores50
- Deerland Probiotics & Enzymes21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 153 people in all. 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- LightningVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Forsyth’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 Taney County and the Branson, MO metro.
Forsyth home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Forsyth$209,177
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Forsyth listings — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Forsyth28.24%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Forsyth57
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Forsyth13
Zip codes with a Forsyth address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Forsyth — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.