Wasola, Missouri.
Typical home $250,035 (+5.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$827 (+171%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,131 +6%
- $236,904$250,035 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,722 +45%
- $172,313$250,035 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.
- Wasola$1,312
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Wasola, MO rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wasola, Ozark County, Missouri
Wasola, in Ozark County, had 115 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Ozark County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ozark County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wasola is a small community in Ozark County, in the Ozark hills of south-central Missouri. It is one of the smaller places in its county, and its sense of community comes from neighbors who know one another. The area has cold winters, hot summers, and a good deal of rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, local shops and the building trades. Jobs in the county have edged up over the past year, and the local economy has been steady rather than booming. Work tends to be close to home, so many people do not have long commutes.
Things to do. Bryant Creek State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is a good choice for an outing in the woods. Bull Shoals Lake, a reservoir, and Fox Creek, a river, are both a longer drive away and suit a day of water recreation.
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What people in Ozark County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ozark County had 1,519 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wasola 5N weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ozark County
- Gainesville R-V SchoolsSchool district171FTE
- Bakersfield R-IV SchoolsSchool district71FTE
- Rainbow Trout and Game RanchResort hotels without casinos70
- Gainesville Health Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities58
- Lutie R-VI SchoolsSchool district48FTE
- Dora R-iii SchoolsSchool district43FTE
- American Pacific/Applicators, wood, manufacturing28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 156 people in all across the county; Wasola has none 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 stormsVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wasola’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 Ozark County.
Wasola home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wasola$250,035
- 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.
Zip codes with a Wasola address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wasola — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.