Oronogo, Missouri.
Typical home $248,469 (+1.9% in a year). Joplin, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$697 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,635 +2%
- $243,834$248,469 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,728 +28%
- $194,741$248,469 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.
- Oronogo$1,304
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Oronogo, MO rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oronogo, Jasper County, Missouri
Oronogo is a city of 2,558 people in Jasper County. Half its households earn more than $91,563 a year and half less, against $60,694 across Jasper County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oronogo is a small city in Jasper County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, a much higher share than across the county. Households here are younger than the national picture would suggest, and incomes run well above the county's, with few people living below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers get hot by July, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Across Jasper County, the largest workplaces include Jasper Products, which makes milk substitutes, Schreiber Foods' Fairview plant, a cheese maker, and the Carthage R-IX Schools. Commutes are of middling length, and a good number of people work from home. Jobs across the county were fewer last year than the year before.
Things to do. Bens Branch, a river, runs in or beside town. A short drive away is the Battle of Carthage State Historic Site, an archaeological site tied to Civil War history. For a longer outing, George Washington Carver National Monument, a protected area, and Prairie State Park, another protected area, are both a longer drive away.
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- 939households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 20%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 45° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Joplin Regional Airport weather station, 4 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; Oronogo has none 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oronogo’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.
Oronogo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oronogo$248,469
- 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.
- Oronogo9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Oronogo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oronogo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Oronogo
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64855 | Oronogo | 3,039 | — | $253,760 |
| 64832 | Asbury | 1,286 | — | $281,538 |