Humansville, Missouri.
Typical home $194,585 (+8.0% in a year). Springfield, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$604 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,441 +8%
- $180,144$194,585 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,042 +37%
- $142,542$194,585 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.
- Humansville$1,021
- 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 Humansville, MO rose 8.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Humansville, Polk County, Missouri
Humansville is a city of 907 people in Polk County. Half its households earn more than $37,446 a year and half less, against $59,647 across Polk County. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Humansville is a small city in Polk County, Missouri, with a population small enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Household incomes here run well below the county's, while homes are typical of the wider market. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home. Winters are cold, with only a little snow, and summers turn hot. Rain and melted snow arrive in fair amounts through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services also employing many. The largest workplaces in town are Life Care Centers of America, a skilled nursing facility, Humansville R-IV Schools, the local school district, and Big Spring Care Center, a nursing home. Across Polk County, there were somewhat fewer jobs last year than the year before, and unemployment is a little lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. Panther Creek is a river a short drive away, and it is the closest water to town. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Pomme de Terre Lake, a reservoir, and to Pomme de Terre State Park, a protected area. Stockton Lake, another reservoir, is also a longer drive away.
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- 385households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 2%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, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Humansville
- Life Care Centers of AmericaSkilled nursing facilities114
- Humansville R-IV SchoolsSchool district47FTE
- Big Spring Care CenterNursing homes42
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 156 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 stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Humansville’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 Polk County and the Springfield, MO metro.
Humansville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Humansville$194,585
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Humansville11
Zip codes with a Humansville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Humansville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.