Webb City, Missouri.
Typical home $227,158 (+1.9% in a year), asking rent $1,180 (+0.0%). Joplin, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$679 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,306 +2%
- $222,853$227,158 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,276 +33%
- $170,882$227,158 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.
- Webb City$1,192
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Webb City, MO rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Webb City, MO rose 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Webb City runs $391/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $1,571 a month against $1,180 rent: a $1,192 mortgage payment, plus $136 property tax and $243 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Webb City
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,571
- Renting$1,180
- Mortgage only$1,192
Property tax · $136/mo 0.72% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Jasper County, MO
Insurance & upkeep · $243/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Webb City, Jasper County, Missouri
Webb City is a city of 13,031 people in Jasper County. Half its households earn more than $65,469 a year and half less, against $60,694 across Jasper County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Jasper County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.9% fewer 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. Webb City is a small city in Jasper County, Missouri, with a younger population than much of the country. Household incomes run higher than across the county, though a good share of residents still live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and renting is common too. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services also employing plenty of people. Webb City R-VII Schools, Walmart and Cardinal Scale / Detecto are among the largest workplaces in town. Commutes are short, and few people work from home. Jobs across Jasper County have slipped a little over the past year, and unemployment there is slightly lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Route 66 Park, a short drive away, is a place to stroll or sit outside, and Fred G. Hughes Stadium is also a short drive from town. For history, the Battle of Carthage State Historic Site is a short drive away, while the George Washington Carver National Monument, a protected area, is a longer drive. Bens Branch, a small river, runs in or beside town.
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- 5,077households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jasper County had 56,939 jobs in 2025, 3.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Joplin Regional Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Webb City
- Webb City R-vii SchoolsSchool district454FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters345
- Cardinal Scale / DetectoScales, including laboratory-type, manufacturing255
- Amcor Packaging Inc. JoplinFlexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing244
- The Yaffe CompaniesMetal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers50
- Atwoods 15Retail store40
- Grace Precision ProductsMachine shops38
- Tateho Technical CeramicsPottery products manufacturing37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,033 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Webb City’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 Jasper County and the Joplin, MO metro.
Webb City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Webb City$227,158
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Webb City listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Webb City25.14%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Webb City76
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Webb City25
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Webb City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Webb City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.