Best PlacesCorry, MO Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Corry, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Corry ranks 39,702nd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. Health outcomes pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on affordable childcare.

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The best neighborhoods in Corry

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Corry area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.

Corry's strengths and weaknesses

Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Corry with other towns.

Where Corry ranks high

  • Cheap childcare$546 a month, better than 87% of towns
  • State fiscal healthBetter than 73% of towns
  • Local economyBetter than 66% of towns
  • Low property taxBetter than 63% of towns
  • QuietBetter than 61% of towns

Where Corry ranks low

  • Health outlookBetter than only 8% of towns
  • Nice weatherabout 61 pleasant days a year, better than only 10% of towns
  • Internet speedBetter than only 12% of towns
  • Cell coverageBetter than only 12% of towns
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than only 13% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Corry

A household needs to earn about $54,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Corry home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $69,621, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$54,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$1,260
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $211,965 home
Median rent
$769
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,081
Property tax$109
Homeowners insurance$71

Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Corry's effective rate of 0.62%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 10 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in Corry

Corry runs older than the country.

Median age
51
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
29%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.6
near the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1819%
18 to 3412%
35 to 4918%
50 to 6421%
65 and older29%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Corry.


Who works in Corry, and how

Work in Corry centers on retail trade and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
12%
below the national average
Unemployment
3.5%
below the national average
Job growth
+4.1%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Retail trade13%
Health care & social13%
Manufacturing13%
Agriculture & forestry10%
Education8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 82%
  • Work from home 12%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 5%

Life in Corry

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Corry.


What the weather is like in Corry, month by month

Corry sees roughly 61 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 92 degrees. January highs sit near 47, with lows near 23. The comfortable stretch runs April, May, September, and October.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January47°34°23°
April71°57°44°
July92°79°69°
October74°59°47°

Flying in and out of Corry

The nearest airport, Springfield-Branson Ntl, is about 26 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Kansas City International, about 137 miles away.

Nearest airport
SGF
Springfield-Branson Ntl, about 26 miles
Airport size
Small hub
118th-busiest in the US, 32 nonstop destinations
Average drive
36 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Corry

Schools across Corry average a C+, better than 49% of towns.

Top elementary schools

Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Corry school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Corry measure by measure

Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Corry against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Corry

Is Corry a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Corry ranks 39,702nd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on affordable childcare, state finances, and a strong job market, and lowest on health outcomes and the weather. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Corry expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $211,965. The overall cost of living runs about 16% below the national average. Set against a $69,621 median income, cost of living beats 52% of towns.

Is Corry safe?

Corry is safer than 22% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $523 per resident a year.


Compare Corry with other towns


Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Corry. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Corry represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.

Corry detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for Corry: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in Corry: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of Corry: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in Corry: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

Corry detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.