Washburn, Missouri.
Typical home $267,763 (+4.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$875 (+165%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,843 +4%
- $256,919$267,763 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $81,336 +44%
- $186,426$267,763 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.
- Washburn$1,405
- 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 Washburn, MO rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Washburn, Barry County, Missouri
Washburn is a city of 407 people in Barry County. Half its households earn more than $66,250 a year and half less, against $58,346 across Barry County. Unemployment in Barry County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Barry County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Washburn is a very small city in Barry County, Missouri, with a young population for a community its size. Household incomes run above the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by August.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades, and only a small share work from home. Across Barry County, the largest workplaces include Cassville Processing, Tyson Poultry and Schreiber Foods Monett. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Roaring River State Park, a protected area, and Pea Ridge National Military Park, an archaeological site, are both a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the best known museum nearby. Those who like the water can also head to Beaver Lake, a reservoir, a longer drive away.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 6%work from home
What people in Barry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Barry County had 13,017 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 23°; warmest in August, with highs near 88° and lows near 64°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Seligman weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Barry County
- Cassville ProcessingPoultry processing798
- Tyson PoultryPoultry processing595
- Miracle Recreation Equipment CoStairs, metal, manufacturing436
- Schreiber Foods MonettCheese manufacturing373
- Monett R-I SchoolsSchool district351FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters286
- Cox-monett HospitalCritical access hospital249FTE
- Cassville R-IV SchoolsSchool district244FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 16,412 people in all across the county; Washburn has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Washburn’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 Barry County.
Washburn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Washburn$267,763
- 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.
- Washburn18
Zip codes with a Washburn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Washburn — 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.