Wheaton, Missouri.
Typical home $211,872 (+0.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$667 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,332 +1%
- $210,540$211,872 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,868 +35%
- $157,004$211,872 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.
- Wheaton$1,112
- 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 Wheaton, MO rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wheaton, Barry County, Missouri
Wheaton is a city of 672 people in 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wheaton is a very small city in Barry County, in the southwest corner of Missouri. Homes here are valued below what is typical for much of the country, and household incomes across Barry County are modest. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with a light amount of snow and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Barry County, the largest workplaces include Cassville Processing, Tyson Poultry and Schreiber Foods Monett. The commute to work is a short one, and the county has lost a small share of its jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Pogue Creek runs in or beside town, and Capps Creek is a short drive away. For a day out, Roaring River State Park is a protected area a longer drive off, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is also a longer drive away.
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- 19 mintypical commute
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 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, 9 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; Wheaton has one 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 stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wheaton’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 Barry County.
Wheaton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wheaton$211,872
- 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.
- Wheaton10
Zip codes with a Wheaton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wheaton — 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.