Mountain Grove, Missouri.
Typical home $203,152 (+3.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$591 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,190 +3%
- $196,962$203,152 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,270 +32%
- $153,881$203,152 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.
- Mountain Grove$1,066
- 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 Mountain Grove, MO rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mountain Grove, Wright County, Missouri
Mountain Grove is a city of 4,313 people in Wright County. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Wright County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wright County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mountain Grove is a small city in Wright County, Missouri, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the typical commute is short. Residents are somewhat older than in much of the country, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than in most places. Incomes run below the county's, and poverty is more widespread than many people might expect. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and the building trades also employing a good share. Among the largest workplaces in Mountain Grove are Walmart, Mountain Grove R-III Schools and Dura-Line, a PVC pipe manufacturer. Across Wright County, unemployment is lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. The North Fork River runs in or beside town, so water is close at hand. Big Piney River is a short drive away, and the Gasconade River is a longer drive for those who want to go farther afield.
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- 1,957households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 14 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Wright County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wright County had 4,678 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 10 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mountain Grove North weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mountain Grove
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters232
- Mountain Grove R-iii SchoolsSchool district231FTE
- Dura-LinePvc pipe manufacturing109
- Mountain GroveMail and parcel delivery24
- HC South Central MissouriHome health care agencies23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 388 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
- Strong windVery high
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mountain Grove’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Wright County.
Mountain Grove home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mountain Grove$203,152
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Mountain Grove listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Mountain Grove23.54%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mountain Grove79
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mountain Grove20
Zip codes with a Mountain Grove address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mountain Grove — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.