Rockaway Beach, Missouri.
Typical home $176,261 (+3.1% in a year). Branson, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$566 (+158%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,271 +3%
- $170,990$176,261 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,785 +39%
- $126,476$176,261 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.
- Rockaway Beach$925
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Rockaway Beach, MO rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rockaway Beach, Taney County, Missouri
Rockaway Beach is a city of 829 people in Taney County. Half its households earn more than $63,646 a year and half less, against $56,497 across Taney County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rockaway Beach is a small city on Lake Taneycomo in the Missouri Ozarks, with Bear Creek running in or beside town. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run higher than across Taney County as a whole. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops. Across Taney County, some of the largest workplaces are Bass Pro, Branson R-IV Schools and Walmart. A typical commute is moderate, and a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Taneycomo, a reservoir, lies in or beside town, and Bear Creek, a river, runs there too. A short drive away is the Titanic Museum. Table Rock Lake, another reservoir, and Silver Dollar City, an amusement park, are a longer drive away.
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- 281households
- 13%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents 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 48° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 67°. About 7 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ozark Beach weather station, 3 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 across the county; Rockaway Beach 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Rockaway Beach’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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.
Rockaway Beach home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rockaway Beach$176,261
- 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.
- Rockaway Beach12
Zip codes with a Rockaway Beach address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rockaway Beach — 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.