Jasper, Missouri.
. Joplin, MO metro.
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.
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Living in Jasper, Jasper County, Missouri
Jasper is a city of 906 people in Jasper County. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Jasper County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jasper is a very small city in southwest Missouri, home to a community where most households own the house they live in. Residents tend to be somewhat younger than in many small towns, and incomes across Jasper County run a little below the national picture. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly hot by July.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops, with a good number in other service jobs. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in many places, and almost nobody works from home, so most people commute, usually for a moderate drive. Across Jasper County, the largest workplaces include Schreiber Foods Fairview Plant, which makes cheese, Jasper Products, which makes milk substitutes, and the Carthage R-IX Schools. Jobs in the county were fewer last year than the year before, while unemployment has eased a little compared with a year ago.
Things to do. Coon Creek runs in or beside town, and Pettis Creek is a short drive away for time near the water. Golden Prairie, a protected area of native grassland, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Prairie State Park is a protected prairie reserve a longer drive off, and the George Washington Carver National Monument is a longer drive as well.
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- 304households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jasper County had 56,939 jobs in 2025, 3.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Carthage weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jasper County
- Marmic Fire & Safety CompanyExtinguishers, fire, merchant wholesalers1,400
- Contract Freighters, Inc Joplin HeadquarterMotor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload1,331
- Jasper ProductsMilk substitutes manufacturing1,006
- Carthage R-IX SchoolsSchool district824FTE
- Schreiber Foods Fairview PlantCheese manufacturing733
- Bill's ElectricElectrical contractors703
- General Mills (Joplin)Pizzas, frozen, manufacturing667
- Missouri Southern State UniversityUniversity or college578
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 127 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 19,681 people in all across the county; Jasper has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Jasper’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 Jasper County and the Joplin, MO metro.
Jasper 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.
- Jasper7
Zip codes with a Jasper address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jasper — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.