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Isabella, Missouri.

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What it costs per month · Isabella $1,393/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$768 (+123%) since Jan 2020.

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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Missouri $1,393 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Missouri$1,393
  • United States$1,922

Living in Isabella, Ozark County, Missouri

The Census does not count Isabella on its own, so the figures here are Ozark County's. Half the county's households earn more than $44,163 a year and half less; 22% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 82% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Ozark County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ozark County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.

People 9,000 about, in Ozark County: the Census does not count Isabella on its own
Household income $44,163 the median in Ozark County, give or take $3,934
Unemployment 5.3% Ozark County, August 2026; 6.3% a year before
Homes 82% lived in by their owners; 18% rented

Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Isabella is a small town in Ozark County, in the Missouri Ozarks, where hills, rivers and wooded land surround the town. Winters are colder than in much of the country, summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow. Across the county, more homes are lived in by their owners than rented, and residents are older on average than most of the country.

Work. Across Ozark County, many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, or the building trades. Job numbers edged up over the past year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier. Incomes sit below those of most of the country, a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than in most places, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across most of the country.

Things to do. Pond Fork and Barren Fork are rivers in or beside town, so open water is close at hand. Bull Shoals Caverns, a tourist attraction, is a longer drive away.

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  • 3,709households
  • 51.4median age
  • 15%of adults have a degree
  • 22%below the poverty line
  • 30 mintypical commute
  • 15%work from home

What people in Ozark County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care20%
  • Manufacturing13%
  • Shops (retail)12%
  • Building trades9%
  • Farming, forestry and mining9%
  • Other services8%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ozark County had 1,519 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 46° and 28°; warmest in July, 90° and 69° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 46° 28° F M A M J J 90° 69° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 46° and 28°; warmest in July, 90° and 69° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 46° 28° F M A M J J 90° 69° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mountain Home Baxter Airport weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Ozark County

  1. Gainesville R-V SchoolsSchool district171FTE
  2. Bakersfield R-IV SchoolsSchool district71FTE
  3. Rainbow Trout and Game RanchResort hotels without casinos70
  4. Gainesville Health Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities58
  5. Lutie R-VI SchoolsSchool district48FTE
  6. Dora R-iii SchoolsSchool district43FTE
  7. American Pacific/Applicators, wood, manufacturing28

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 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

  1. Ice stormsRelatively high
  2. Heat wavesRelatively moderate
  3. Strong windRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Ozark County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Ozark County.

Isabella home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

Not enough data to draw this yet.

Market heat, inside the city limits

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

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Zip codes with a Isabella address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Isabella — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.