Wentworth, Missouri.
Typical home $314,174 (+5.3% in a year). Joplin, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,012 (+159%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,762 +5%
- $298,412$314,174 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $91,937 +41%
- $222,237$314,174 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.
- Wentworth$1,649
- 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 Wentworth, MO rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wentworth, Newton County, Missouri
Wentworth is a village of 98 people in Newton County. Unemployment in Newton County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 8.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Newton 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wentworth is a small village in Newton County in the southwest corner of Missouri, and it is home to a very small population. Its setting is rural, and the nearby country is shaped by creeks and open land. Neighbors here are likely to know one another well, as they do in most places of this size.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, shops and professional services. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and job numbers have grown over the same period. Far fewer adults hold a four-year degree here than in the country as a whole, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The George Washington Carver National Monument, a protected area, lies a longer drive away and is one of the best known sites nearby. Capps Creek, a river, is a short drive away and suits a quiet outing. The First Battle of Newtonia Historic District, an archaeological site, is also a short drive away.
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- 2%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in Newton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Newton County had 23,014 jobs in 2025, 8.1% 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 August, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 7 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Monett 4SW weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newton County
- Freeman Oak Hill Health SystemGeneral hospital2,921FTE
- Joplin SchoolsSchool district1,182FTE
- Mercy Hospital JoplinGeneral hospital922FTE
- La-Z-BoyUpholstered furniture, household-type, custom, manufacturing850
- Neosho School DistrictSchool district666FTE
- Crowder CollegeTwo-year college618
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters421
- Heartland Pet Foods JoplinDog and cat food, manufacturing307
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 67 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,500 people in all across the county; Wentworth has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wentworth’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 Newton County and the Joplin, MO metro.
Wentworth home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wentworth$314,174
- 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 Wentworth address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wentworth — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.