Walnut Grove, Missouri.
Typical home $302,177 (+6.1% in a year). Springfield, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$976 (+160%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,347 +6%
- $284,830$302,177 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,004 +39%
- $217,173$302,177 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.
- Walnut Grove$1,586
- 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 Walnut Grove, MO rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Walnut Grove, Greene County, Missouri
Walnut Grove is a city of 652 people in Greene County. Half its households earn more than $55,500 a year and half less, against $61,479 across Greene County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Walnut Grove is a very small city in Greene County, Missouri, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Household incomes run below the county's, and the typical home is valued well above what the town's incomes might suggest. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold with a modest amount of snow, while summers turn hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and restaurants and hotels also employing many. The commute to work tends to be a long one. Across Greene County, some of the biggest workplaces are Lester E. Cox Medical Centers, Mercy Hospital Springfield and Missouri State University-Springfield.
Things to do. A short drive away is the Nathan and Olive Boone Homestead State Historic Site, a protected area, and Clear Creek, a river good for time outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Fantastic Caverns, a well-known tourist attraction.
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- 244households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 38 mintypical commute
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 44° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 9 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ash Grove 4S weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greene County
- Lester E. Cox Medical CentersHospitals, general medical and surgical11,485
- CoxhealthGeneral hospital7,188FTE
- Mercy Hospital SpringfieldGeneral hospital3,872FTE
- Missouri State University-SpringfieldUniversity or college2,894
- Springfield R-xii SchoolsSchool district2,875FTE
- CoxHealthHospitals, specialty2,836
- The Arc of the OzarksGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability1,754
- Ozarks Technical Community CollegeUniversity or college1,597
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 383 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 62,585 people in all across the county; Walnut Grove has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Walnut Grove’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 Greene County and the Springfield, MO metro.
Walnut Grove home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Walnut Grove$302,177
- 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.
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.
- Walnut Grove9
Zip codes with a Walnut Grove address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Walnut Grove — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.