Long Lane, Missouri.
Typical home $272,300 (+7.9% in a year). Springfield, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$908 (+174%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,042 +8%
- $252,258$272,300 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $82,729 +44%
- $189,571$272,300 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.
- Long Lane$1,429
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Long Lane, MO rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Long Lane, Dallas County, Missouri
The Census does not count Long Lane on its own, so the figures here are Dallas County's. Half the county's households earn more than $53,464 a year and half less; 20% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Dallas County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dallas County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Long Lane is a small town in Dallas County, in south-central Missouri. Most homes across the county are lived in by their owners, and the typical home value is well below the national figure. Winters bring real cold and some snow, and summers are hot, with a good deal of rain over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing and the building trades, with shops also a common employer. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and few people work from home. Jobs grew across the county over the past year, though unemployment has edged up since last year. Commutes are longer than many across the country.
Things to do. Dousinbury Creek runs in or beside town, so the river is close at hand. Bennett Spring State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Pomme de Terre Lake, a reservoir, lies a longer drive off.
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- 6,768households
- 41.7median age
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Dallas County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dallas County had 2,849 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 66°. About 9 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Buffalo 2N weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dallas County
- Dallas Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district310FTE
- Citizens Memorial Health Care FoundationNursing homes140
- WalmartDiscount department stores88
- THE DURHAM COMPANY-BuffaloMetering panels, electric, manufacturing84
- Tide Health GroupSkilled nursing facilities53
- BuffaloMail and parcel delivery21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 386 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 stormsVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Dallas 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 Dallas County and the Springfield, MO metro.
Long Lane home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Long Lane$272,300
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Long Lane address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Long Lane — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.