Goodman, Missouri.
Typical home $203,011 (+4.9% in a year). Joplin, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$619 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,542 +5%
- $193,469$203,011 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,742 +33%
- $152,269$203,011 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.
- Goodman$1,066
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Goodman, MO rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Goodman, McDonald County, Missouri
Goodman is a city of 1,202 people in McDonald County. Half its households earn more than $54,250 a year and half less, against $52,375 across McDonald County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in McDonald County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in McDonald County work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Goodman is a small city in McDonald County, Missouri, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little above the county's, though more residents live below the poverty line than many would expect of a place this size. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain across the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, shops, schools, hospitals and social care, and the building trades. Across McDonald County, the largest workplaces include Simmons Foods, Walmart and the McDonald County R-I school district. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and the county has seen a small gain in jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Neosho National Fish Hatchery, a park, and Elkhorn Creek, a river, are both a short drive away. For a longer trip, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is a museum a longer drive away, and the George Washington Carver National Monument, a protected area, is also a longer drive.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
What people in McDonald County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McDonald County had 5,739 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 9 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Anderson weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McDonald County
- Simmons Foods1,106
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters429
- Mcdonald Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district413FTE
- Simmons Animal Nutritiondry292
- Cobb-vantressChicken egg production193
- SimmonsBuilding cleaning services, interior55
- Opal-Foods Anderson FarmChicken egg production50
- Harp's Food StoreRetail grocery40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,344 people in all across the county; Goodman 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Goodman’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 McDonald County and the Joplin, MO metro.
Goodman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Goodman$203,011
- 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.
- Goodman14
Zip codes with a Goodman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Goodman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.