Macon, Missouri.
Typical home $186,175 (+4.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$552 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,875 +4%
- $178,300$186,175 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,340 +34%
- $138,836$186,175 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.
- Macon$977
- 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 Macon, MO rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Macon, Macon County, Missouri
Macon is a city of 5,457 people in Macon County. Half its households earn more than $61,642 a year and half less, against $62,357 across Macon County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Macon County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Macon is a small city in Macon County, Missouri, with a population older than in much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, government and shops also employing a good share. Among the largest workplaces in Macon are Conagra Brands, a frozen specialty food manufacturer, Samaritan Memorial Hospital, and the Macon County R-I school district. Commutes are short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Long Branch State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the nearest place to get outdoors. Union Covered Bridge State Historic Site is a longer drive away and is a protected area of a more historical kind. Bear Creek is a river a longer drive away, and it too is a place for a quiet outing.
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- 2,431households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Macon County had 4,823 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Long Branch Rsvr weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Macon
- Conagra BrandsFrozen specialty food manufacturing364
- Samaritan Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital158FTE
- Macon Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district134FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores116
- Macon Health Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities72
- Sydenstricker Nobbe PartnersAgricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers54
- Macon County Sheltered WorkshopWorkshops for persons with disabilities31
- HC North Central MissouriHome health care agencies25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 662 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of MaconRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of MaconRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Macon’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Macon County.
Macon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Macon$186,175
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Macon listings — the market is heating up.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Macon15.70%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Macon28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Macon6
Zip codes with a Macon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Macon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.