Pomona, Missouri.
Typical home $251,068 (+10.7% in a year). West Plains, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$862 (+189%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,244 +11%
- $226,824$251,068 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $81,735 +48%
- $169,333$251,068 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.
- Pomona$1,318
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Pomona, MO rose 10.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pomona, Howell County, Missouri
Pomona, in Howell County, had 440 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Howell County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Howell County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pomona is a very small community in the Missouri Ozarks, in Howell County. Home values here sit well above what a household earning the county's median income might expect, so many homes are likely held by people who have been here a long time. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and daytime highs staying well above freezing but cool, while summers turn hot, with July the warmest month. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents of the area work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Howell County, the largest workplaces include Ozarks Medical Center, Leonardo DRS and Walmart. Jobs in the county slipped slightly last year, and unemployment in the county has eased a little compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. The surrounding countryside is mostly about water and woods. Jacks Fork and the Big Piney River are rivers within a longer drive, and Grand Gulf State Park is a protected area, also a longer drive away. Tabor Creek is another stream in the same region for those who prefer smaller waters.
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What people in Howell County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Howell County had 15,327 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Plains Municipal Airport weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Howell County
- Ozarks Medical CenterGeneral hospital978FTE
- American Medical Response615
- Leonardo DRSAutomobile transporter trailers, multi-car, manufacturing436
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters415
- West Plains R-vii SchoolsSchool district405FTE
- AHF ProductsFlooring, wood, manufacturing280
- Missouri State University-West PlainsTwo-year college251
- Willow Springs R-IV SchoolsSchool district162FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,622 people in all across the county; Pomona has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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 stormsVery high
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pomona’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 Howell County and the West Plains, MO metro.
Pomona home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pomona$251,068
- 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.
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.
Zip codes with a Pomona address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pomona — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.