Richland, Missouri.
Typical home $214,848 (+7.2% in a year). Fort Leonard Wood, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$678 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,491 +7%
- $200,358$214,848 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,632 +32%
- $163,217$214,848 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.
- Richland$1,128
- 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 Richland, MO rose 7.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Richland, Pulaski County, Missouri
Richland is a city of 1,734 people in Pulaski County. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Pulaski County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pulaski County work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Richland is a small Missouri city in Pulaski County, home to a small population at the last census. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and a typical home costs less than the national norm. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in shops. Richland R-IV Schools and the Pulaski County Sheltered Workshop are among the largest workplaces in town. Commutes run fairly long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Bear Creek river is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Lake of the Ozarks, a large reservoir, and to Ha Ha Tonka State Park, a protected area. Bridal Cave, a tourist attraction, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 896households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 28 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Pulaski County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pulaski County had 13,141 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°. About 10 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waynesville West weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Richland
- Richland R-IV SchoolsSchool district82FTE
- Pulaski County Sheltered WorkshopRehabilitation job counseling and training, vocational35
- ATR Lighting Enterprises Inc - MissouriLight bulbs merchant wholesalers33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 68 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Richland’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Pulaski County and the Fort Leonard Wood, MO metro.
Richland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Richland$214,848
- 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 3 Richland listings — 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.
- Richland31.00%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Richland33
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Richland8
Zip codes with a Richland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Richland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.