Muscotah, KS population, income and ZIP codes

Muscotah city is a very small community in Kansas, with 138 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #500 of 740 ranked by population — larger than 32% of them. The median age here is 54.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Muscotah city earn a median of not published a year. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 13.8% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Muscotah city is valued at $58,000, 80.9% below the national figure and 56% below the $131,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $733 a month, 47.9% below the national figure, or roughly $8,796 across a full year. 73.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 54.8 puts Muscotah city well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 138 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Muscotah city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Muscotah city because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.