Nixa, Missouri.
Typical home $324,421 (+2.6% in a year), asking rent $1,582 (+5.5%). Springfield, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$918 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,213 +3%
- $316,208$324,421 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,145 +25%
- $260,276$324,421 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.
- Nixa$1,703
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Nixa, MO rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Nixa, MO rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Nixa runs $659/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $870 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,241 a month against $1,582 rent: a $1,703 mortgage payment, plus $191 property tax and $347 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Nixa
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,241
- Renting$1,582
- Mortgage only$1,703
Property tax · $191/mo 0.70% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Christian County, MO
Insurance & upkeep · $347/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Nixa, Christian County, Missouri
Nixa is a city of 23,257 people in Christian County. Half its households earn more than $83,385 a year and half less, against $83,437 across Christian County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Nixa was 3.5% in August 2026, and Christian County had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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. Nixa is a city in Christian County, Missouri, and most homes in it are lived in by their owners. Household incomes sit close to the county's, and the share of residents below the poverty line is modest. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn quite warm, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, or in manufacturing. Nixa Public Schools and Walmart are among the largest workplaces in town, and Diversified Plastics Corp Nixa is another. Unemployment has eased over the past year, and the typical commute is a fairly short one.
Things to do. Wilson's Creek National Battlefield, a historic site, is a short drive away, as is Riverbluff Cave, which is run as a museum. Wonders of Wildlife Museum & Aquarium, also a short drive off, combines a museum with a zoo. For a longer outing, Silver Dollar City, an amusement park, is a longer drive away.
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- 9,226households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Christian County had 20,884 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°. About 7 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ozark weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nixa
- Nixa Public SchoolsSchool district706FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters434
- Spot On DeliveryExpress delivery services185
- Diversified Plastics Corp NixaFoam polystyrene products manufacturing145
- CRJ AviationAirports, civil, operation and maintenance120
- Food MerchantsPharmacy114
- Total Package DeliveryExpress delivery services95
- Springfield AluminumMarine hardware, metal, manufacturing74
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,628 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 stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Nixa’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 Christian County and the Springfield, MO metro.
Nixa home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Nixa$324,421
- 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 3 Nixa listings, and the typical home goes pending in 18 days — 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.
- Nixa31.68%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Nixa18
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Nixa170
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Nixa59
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Nixa$311,172
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Nixa99.20%
Zip codes with a Nixa address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Nixa — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.