Willard, Missouri.
Typical home $272,086 (+2.4% in a year), asking rent $1,525 . Springfield, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$825 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,323 +2%
- $265,763$272,086 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,416 +28%
- $212,669$272,086 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.
- Willard$1,428
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Willard, MO rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Willard, Greene County, Missouri
Willard is a city of 6,344 people in Greene County. Half its households earn more than $84,600 a year and half less, against $61,479 across Greene County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Greene County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Willard is a small city in Greene County, with a population that has grown past the size of a town most people would call tiny. Household incomes run well above the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. A smaller share of residents live below the poverty line, and a four-year degree is held by a fair number of adults.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in manufacturing. Across Greene County, the largest workplaces include Lester E. Cox Medical Centers, Mercy Hospital Springfield and Missouri State University-Springfield. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the commute is moderate, with a modest share of people working from home.
Things to do. Fantastic Caverns, a well-known tourist attraction, and Dickerson Park Zoo are both a short drive away. Route 66 Stadium is also a short drive away, while Wilson's Creek National Battlefield, an archaeological site, is a longer drive. Winters are cold with some snow, and summers are hot, so the seasons shape what is worth doing outdoors.
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- 2,180households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greene County had 179,452 jobs in 2025, 0.6% 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 July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 14 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Springfield weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greene County
- Lester E. Cox Medical CentersHospitals, general medical and surgical11,485
- CoxhealthGeneral hospital7,188FTE
- Mercy Hospital SpringfieldGeneral hospital3,872FTE
- Missouri State University-SpringfieldUniversity or college2,894
- Springfield R-xii SchoolsSchool district2,875FTE
- CoxHealthHospitals, specialty2,836
- The Arc of the OzarksGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability1,754
- Ozarks Technical Community CollegeUniversity or college1,597
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 383 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 62,585 people in all across the county; Willard has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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 stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Willard’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 Greene County and the Springfield, MO metro.
Willard home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Willard$272,086
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Willard listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Willard25.93%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Willard42
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Willard12
Zip codes with a Willard address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Willard — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.