Anniston, MO population, income and ZIP codes

Anniston town is a very small community in Missouri, with 262 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #671 of 1,082 ranked by population — larger than 38% of them. The median age here is 37 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 Anniston town earn a median of $34,615 a year, 55.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 38% below the $55,543 median for the 374 Missouri cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 31.3% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Anniston town is valued at $51,700, 83% below the national figure and 66% below the $152,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,281 a month, 8.9% below the national figure, or roughly $15,372 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 44.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is severely stretched — a median-income renter clears the cost-burden line by a wide margin before utilities beyond the gross-rent definition. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 1.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 86.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Anniston town is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 44.4% of median income while homes cost only 1.5× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. With 262 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Anniston town against its county rather than against national figures.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.