Republic, Missouri.
Typical home $269,759 (+2.8% in a year), asking rent $1,393 (-0.3%). Springfield, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$797 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,350 +3%
- $262,409$269,759 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,330 +25%
- $216,429$269,759 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.
- Republic$1,416
- 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 Republic, MO rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Republic, MO fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Republic runs $471/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $559 in Oct 2023.
That is $1,864 a month against $1,393 rent: a $1,416 mortgage payment, plus $160 property tax and $289 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Republic
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$1,864
- Renting$1,393
- Mortgage only$1,416
Property tax · $160/mo 0.71% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Greene County, MO
Insurance & upkeep · $289/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 Republic, Greene County, Missouri
Republic is a city of 18,750 people in Greene County. Half its households earn more than $65,729 a year and half less, against $61,479 across Greene County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Greene County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more 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. Republic is a city in Greene County, Missouri, with a younger population than much of the country. Household incomes run somewhat above the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good number of people rent. Winters are cold and summers hot, with some snow each year and a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops, and professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Republic are Republic R-III Schools, Amazon and McLane. Many people have a commute of a fair length, and a small share work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Wilson's Creek National Battlefield is a historic site, and Wonders of Wildlife Museum & Aquarium is a zoo-style attraction. Fantastic Caverns, also a short drive off, is a well-known cave attraction. Fellows Lake, a reservoir, is a longer drive away.
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- 8,439households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greene County had 179,452 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more 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 90° and lows near 69°. About 14 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Springfield weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Republic
- Republic R-iii SchoolsSchool district891FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage825
- EVO Transportation and Energy ServicesAgricultural products trucking, local465
- McLaneDistribution of a general line of groceries462
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters429
- Red Monkey FoodsPepper manufacturing245
- Heart of America Beverage CompnayBeverages, alcoholic, merchant wholesalers178
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter146
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,291 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Republic’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 Greene County and the Springfield, MO metro.
Republic home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Republic$269,759
- 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 4 Republic listings, and the typical home goes pending in 19 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Republic27.91%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Republic19
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Republic104
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Republic38
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Republic$260,321
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Republic98.50%
Zip codes with a Republic address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Republic — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.