Sarcoxie, Missouri.
Typical home $266,311 (+4.5% in a year). Joplin, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$809 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,497 +5%
- $254,815$266,311 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $74,520 +39%
- $191,792$266,311 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.
- Sarcoxie$1,398
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Sarcoxie, MO rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sarcoxie, Jasper County, Missouri
Sarcoxie is a city of 1,406 people in Jasper County. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. 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 residents work in shops, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sarcoxie is a small city in Jasper County, in the southwest corner of Missouri. Residents are somewhat younger than in many small towns, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across much of the country, and a good many households live on very little.
Work. People here work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Jasper County, some of the largest workplaces are Contract Freighters, which runs a trucking headquarters in Joplin, Jasper Products, a milk substitutes maker, and Schreiber Foods, which makes cheese. The county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, though unemployment there has eased a little. The drive to work is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. White Oak Creek is the closest outdoor spot, a river a short drive away. A longer drive takes you to George Washington Carver National Monument, a protected area honoring one of the best known scientists of his era, and to the Battle of Carthage State Historic Site, an archaeological site tied to an early Civil War fight. Winters are cold and summers hot, so spring and fall suit time by the water.
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- 527households
- 5%of adults have a degree
- 25%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents 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, 12 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; Sarcoxie has one 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 Sarcoxie’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 Jasper County and the Joplin, MO metro.
Sarcoxie home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sarcoxie$266,311
- 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.
- Sarcoxie7
Zip codes with a Sarcoxie address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sarcoxie — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.