Purdy, Missouri.
Typical home $214,151 (+3.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$660 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,935 +4%
- $206,216$214,151 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,831 +32%
- $162,320$214,151 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.
- Purdy$1,124
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Purdy, MO rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Purdy, Barry County, Missouri
Purdy is a city of 1,031 people in Barry County. Unemployment in Barry County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Barry County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Purdy is a small city in Barry County, in the southwest corner of Missouri. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn hot in August; rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and the county's household incomes are modest.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops and in the building trades. Some of the largest workplaces across Barry County are Cassville Processing, Tyson Poultry and Schreiber Foods Monett. The county has lost a small share of its jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is a little lower than it was a year earlier. Most people get to work in a fairly short drive, and very few work from home.
Things to do. Close by, Pogue Creek and Gunter Creek are both streams a short drive away. Farther afield, Roaring River State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Onyx Cave is a tourist attraction, also a longer drive. Roaring River and the James River are rivers within a longer drive as well.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 18 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Barry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Barry County had 13,017 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 24°; warmest in August, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 7 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Monett 4SW weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Barry County
- Cassville ProcessingPoultry processing798
- Tyson PoultryPoultry processing595
- Miracle Recreation Equipment CoStairs, metal, manufacturing436
- Schreiber Foods MonettCheese manufacturing373
- Monett R-I SchoolsSchool district351FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters286
- Cox-monett HospitalCritical access hospital249FTE
- Cassville R-IV SchoolsSchool district244FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 16,412 people in all across the county; Purdy has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Purdy’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 Barry County.
Purdy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Purdy$214,151
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Purdy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Purdy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.