Census-designated place · Taney County, Missouri

Kissee Mills, Missouri

Kissee Mills is a census-designated place in Taney County, Missouri, part of the Branson, MO metro area. It has 1,081 residents. Kissee Mills, Missouri has a quality-of-life score of 39 out of 100 (low), ranking #9,582 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Missouri it ranks #209 of 375 cities and towns. It ranks best on arts, entertainment and recreation (high), rent as share of income (low) and restaurants and bars (high). It ranks worst on distance to an emergency room (high), average weekly wage (low) and public libraries (low).

39Low

Quality-of-life score: #9,582 of 15,651 cities and towns
Missouri: #209 of 375 in MO
Population: 1,081 (2020-2024)
Land area: 9 mi²
Density: 122.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 2939080

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 71 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety15#13,328/15,637
Economy58#6,513/15,631
Housing99#106/14,977
Health16#13,079/15,609
Healthcare22#12,192/15,650
Environment31#10,670/15,453
Education68#4,966/15,649
Infrastructure30#10,951/15,650
Community31#10,792/15,651
Leisure & amenities76#3,798/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Kissee Mills, Missouri ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Taney County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Arts, entertainment and recreation · high22.5 /10k
100/100Missouri 4.6 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTaney County value
Rent as share of income · low9.0%
100/100Missouri 28.1%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Restaurants and bars · high19.0 /10k
98/100Missouri 8.6 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTaney County value
Unemployment rate · low0.0%
98/100Missouri 4.0%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Public EV charging ports · high13.9 /10k
89/100Missouri 5.3 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyTaney County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.50%
88/100Missouri 0.89%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090

Weaknesses

Distance to an emergency room · high27.6 mi
1/100Missouri 6.6 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesTaney County value
Average weekly wage · low$838
2/100Missouri $1,278United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTaney County value
Public libraries · low0.2 /10k
4/100Missouri 0.6 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesTaney County value
Food environment index · low6.1
4/100Missouri 6.9United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTaney County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high131 mi
6/100Missouri 33 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauTaney County value
Firearm deaths · high24.7 /100k
7/100Missouri 20.1 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataTaney County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Rent-burdened householdsImproving
40.0% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−40 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateImproving
41.9% (2015-2019) → 17.0% (2020-2024)
−25 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
31.6% (2015-2019) → 7.1% (2020-2024)
−24 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Median household incomeImproving
$31,055 (2015-2019) → $67,460 (2020-2024)
+117%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Poverty rateImproving
19.5% (2015-2019) → 7.2% (2020-2024)
−12 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
High school diploma or higherImproving
81.7% (2015-2019) → 93.1% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Kissee Mills, Missouri improved on 1 of 7 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 6 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

High school++11 points81.7% → 93.1%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 7 measures

Change of every measure of Kissee Mills, Missouri between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	35.4 min2015-2019	36.2 min2020-2024	+0.8 min	Within the margin of error	38%
Bachelor's degree or higher	10.3%2015-2019	17.0%2020-2024	+6.7 points	Within the margin of error	78%
Broadband subscriptions	73.8%2015-2019	84.3%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	62%
Effective property tax rate	0.56%2015-2019	0.50%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	28%
High school diploma or higher	81.7%2015-2019	93.1%2020-2024	+11 points	Improved	97%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3812015-2019	0.3782020-2024	−0.002	Within the margin of error	53%
Median household income	$31,0552015-2019	$67,4602020-2024	+117%	Within the margin of error	99%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Kissee Mills, Missouri five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Kissee Mills, Missouri in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Kissee Mills, Missouri itself moved +11.5 points in standing on average over the same 7 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,081 residents (±230)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

427 households (±109)

Kissee Mills, Missouri
Missouri share

Under $25k7.3%†31
$25k–50k25%†106
$50k–75k18%

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

427 households (±109)

Kissee Mills, Missouri
Missouri share

Own91%388
Rent9.1%†39

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

333 workers (±103)

Kissee Mills, Missouri
Missouri share

Drive alone80%†266
Carpool14%†48
Public transit

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Branson, MO

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Taney County, the county holding most of Kissee Mills's residents.

Taney County has 1,928 employer establishments, 339 for every 10,000 residents (1.37× the US rate of 248; 1.39× Missouri's), with 24,801 paid employees at an average annual pay of $38,044. The Census Bureau also counts 5,651 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,928; 5,651 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 339; US 248 · Missouri 244
Paid employees: 24,801
Average annual pay: $38,044; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Taney County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Restaurants and other eating places	191	33.6	1.83×More than typical	4,152	$24,455	32
Lessors of real estate	169	29.7	2.41×More than typical	1,594	$55,194	708
Traveler accommodation	108	19	10.5×More than typical	3,193	$35,533	73
Real estate agents and brokers	105	18.5	3.80×More than typical	970	$67,479	203
Specialty trade contractors	105	18.5	1.19×About typical	636	$46,642	455
Clothing and accessories stores	98	17.2	4.75×More than typical	1,079	$24,522	49
Full-service restaurants	96	16.9	2.20×More than typical	2,528	$25,491	13
Ambulatory health care services	89	15.7	0.75×Fewer than typical	806	$63,990	88
Services to buildings and dwellings	71	12.5	1.85×More than typical	889	$29,804	594
Religious organizations	60	10.6	1.90×More than typical	437	$29,371	—
Limited-service restaurants	56	9.9	1.23×About typical	1,103	$21,383	10
Construction of buildings	53	9.3	1.23×About typical	200	$49,480	285

Rank places for an industry Open Taney County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 56,830 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $9,154 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Kissee Mills, Missouri: $8.47 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $9,154; +2,208% vs FY2025
Per resident: $8.47; US $1,995
Sole-source: 3.1%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Forest Service$8,87497%
Department of the Army$2803.1%

Top recipients

JOEL FYOCK$8,87497%
COUNTY OF TANEY$2803.1%

Spending by fiscal year

1.2KFY2017
801FY2018
-399.4FY2019
-205.3FY2020
572.2FY2022
565.2FY2023
511.2FY2024
396.7FY2025

Top industries (NAICS)

Support activities for forestry · 1153$8,87497%
Justice, public order, and safety activities · 9221$2803.1%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Kissee Mills, Missouri, so they do not add up across cities.

Kissee Mills, Missouri's figures are part of those of Taney County, MO ($7.1M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.1% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Kissee Mills is mostly in Taney County.

See federal money in Taney County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Kissee Mills, Missouri is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Eric BurlisonR-MO-7 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 4.6%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Taney County38100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Branson, MO33

Other cities and towns in Taney County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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