Sparta, Missouri.
Typical home $263,683 (+3.2% in a year). Springfield, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$817 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,108 +3%
- $255,575$263,683 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,145 +38%
- $191,538$263,683 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.
- Sparta$1,384
- 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 Sparta, MO rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sparta, Christian County, Missouri
Sparta is a city of 1,876 people in Christian County. Half its households earn more than $63,182 a year and half less, against $83,437 across Christian County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Christian County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Christian County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sparta is a small city in Christian County, Missouri, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes in town run well below the county's, and relatively few adults have a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy by Missouri standards, summers are warm, and the rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Across Christian County, some of the largest workplaces are school districts such as Ozark R-VI Schools and Nixa Public Schools, along with Walmart. The typical commute is a long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Close to town, Stewart Creek and Parched Corn Creek are both rivers a short drive away. For a longer outing, Silver Dollar City is an amusement park and Wilson's Creek National Battlefield is an archaeological site, each a longer drive away.
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- 942households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 39 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Christian County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Christian County had 20,884 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 61°. About 17 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oldfield weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Christian County
- Ozark R-VI SchoolsSchool district1,033FTE
- Nixa Public SchoolsSchool district706FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters434
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters356
- Spot On DeliveryExpress delivery services185
- Clever R-V SchoolsSchool district174FTE
- The Kinetic Group TKGShotgun shells manufacturing159
- G5 EnterprisesFoam insulation installation147
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,585 people in all across the county; Sparta has one of its own. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sparta’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 Christian County and the Springfield, MO metro.
Sparta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sparta$263,683
- 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 8 Sparta 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.
- Sparta13.01%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sparta23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sparta8
Zip codes with a Sparta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sparta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.