Ridgedale, Missouri.
Typical home $377,124 (+2.3% in a year). Branson, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,189 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,574 +2%
- $368,550$377,124 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $87,910 +30%
- $289,214$377,124 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.
- Ridgedale$1,979
- 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 Ridgedale, MO rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ridgedale, Taney County, Missouri
The Census does not count Ridgedale on its own, so the figures here are Taney County's. Half the county's households earn more than $56,497 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 67% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Taney County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Taney County work in restaurants and hotels, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ridgedale sits in the Ozarks of southwestern Missouri, and across Taney County the typical resident is older than the typical American. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run below the national typical, with more residents living below the poverty line than across the country. Winters are colder than in most of the country, with January the coldest month, while July is the warmest, and about a year's worth of rain and melted snow falls on the county.
Work. Jobs across Taney County have held roughly steady over the past year, and unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier. Many residents work in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in the building trades. Commutes are shorter than the national typical, fewer people work from home than across the country, and fewer adults hold a university degree than across the country.
Things to do. Table Rock Lake, a reservoir a short drive away, is one of the best known places nearby, and Table Rock State Park, a protected area also a short drive away, is close by for time outdoors. Silver Dollar City, an amusement park a longer drive away, is another option for a day out.
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- 22,788households
- 42.6median age
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Taney County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Taney County had 28,673 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Branson Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Taney County
- Bass ProHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities1,479
- Branson R-IV SchoolsSchool district679FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters455
- College of the OzarksUniversity or college407
- Sight & Sound MinistriesMusical theater productions, live326
- Kanakuk MinistriesRecreational camps with accommodation facilities304
- Forsyth R-iii SchoolsSchool district233FTE
- Hollister R-V SchoolsSchool district228FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 53 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,445 people in all. 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Taney County, 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 Taney County and the Branson, MO metro.
Ridgedale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ridgedale$377,124
- 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.
- Ridgedale10
Zip codes with a Ridgedale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ridgedale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.