Reeds, Missouri.
Typical home $278,156 (-1.3% in a year). Joplin, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$620 (+74%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $3,619 -1%
- $281,774$278,156 since Sep 2025
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.
- Reeds$1,460
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Reeds, MO fell 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Reeds, Jasper County, Missouri
Reeds is a town of 91 people in Jasper County. 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 people in Jasper County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Reeds is a very small town in Jasper County, in the southwest corner of Missouri. Its homes sit among the county's farmland and creeks, and most of its residents know one another. The town's own figures show a community where few adults hold a four-year degree, and where home values are a little above the county's typical level.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing. Others work in shops, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Local jobs have become somewhat fewer in recent years, but unemployment has eased over the past year.
Things to do. The George Washington Carver National Monument, a protected area, is a longer drive away and honors the early life of the scientist and educator. The Battle of Carthage State Historic Site, an archaeological site a short drive away, marks a Civil War battle fought in the nineteenth century. White Oak Creek, a river a short drive away, is a quiet place for walks and time outdoors.
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- 2%of adults have a degree
What people in Jasper County 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 44° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Carthage weather station, 9 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; Reeds 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively 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 Reeds’ 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.
Reeds home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Reeds$278,156
- 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.
- Reeds6
Zip codes with a Reeds address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Reeds — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.