Strafford, Missouri.
Typical home $308,142 (+4.0% in a year). Springfield, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$936 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,799 +4%
- $296,343$308,142 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,628 +30%
- $237,513$308,142 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.
- Strafford$1,617
- 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 Strafford, MO rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Strafford, Greene County, Missouri
Strafford is a city of 2,561 people in Greene County. Half its households earn more than $64,750 a year and half less, against $61,479 across Greene County. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Greene County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Strafford is a small city in Greene County, Missouri, with a younger population than much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little above the county's. Winters are cold, with a light amount of snow, and summers are hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Some of the largest workplaces in Strafford are Wilson Logistics, Strafford R-VI Schools and TransLand. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people travel a fair way to work, with only a small group working from home.
Things to do. Fellows Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away, and the creeks nearby, such as Sayers Creek, are close too. For a day out, Dickerson Park Zoo and Fantastic Caverns, a tourist attraction, are a longer drive away. Wilson's Creek National Battlefield, also a longer drive away, is one of the best known historic sites in the area.
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- 929households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greene County had 179,452 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 5 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marshfield Wsw weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Strafford
- Wilson LogisticsTransportation292
- Strafford R-VI SchoolsSchool district238FTE
- TransLandGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload184
- John Deere Reman Springfield StraffordGeneral warehousing and storage168
- Wilson RegionalTransportation124
- Warson Brands Distribution CenterShoes merchant wholesalers69
- Dayton Freight LinesTransportation51
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 888 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 stormsVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Strafford’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 Greene County and the Springfield, MO metro.
Strafford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Strafford$308,142
- 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 Strafford 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.
- Strafford31.44%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Strafford28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Strafford9
Zip codes with a Strafford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Strafford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.