Golden, Missouri.
Typical home $311,700 (+3.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,008 (+161%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,749 +4%
- $300,951$311,700 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $84,980 +37%
- $226,720$311,700 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.
- Golden$1,636
- 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 Golden, MO rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Golden, Barry County, Missouri
Golden, in Barry County, had 275 people in the 2020 census. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Golden is a very small community in Barry County, in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri, where people mostly know their neighbors and life moves at a quiet pace. Homes here are valued well above what the county's incomes might suggest, which says something about how far a household budget stretches when buying. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by August.
Work. People who live here find work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops and in the building trades. Across Barry County, the largest workplaces include Cassville Processing, Tyson Poultry and Schreiber Foods Monett. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Roaring River is a river a short drive away, and Onyx Cave, a tourist attraction, is close by as well. The Eureka Springs and North Arkansas Railway museum is also a short drive from town. For a longer outing, Table Rock Lake is a reservoir a longer drive away, and Silver Dollar City is an amusement park a longer drive away.
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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 45° and lows near 23°; warmest in August, with highs near 88° and lows near 64°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Seligman weather station, 15 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; Golden 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- TornadoesVery 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 Golden’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.
Golden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Golden$311,700
- 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.
- Golden16
Zip codes with a Golden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Golden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.