Berkeley, MO population, income and ZIP codes

Berkeley city is a mid-size town in Missouri, with 8,149 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #107 of 1,082 ranked by population — larger than 90% of them. The median age here is 28.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Berkeley city earn a median of $40,654 a year, 48.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 27% below the $55,543 median for the 374 Missouri cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 34.1% 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 Berkeley city is valued at $80,000, 73.6% below the national figure and 48% below the $152,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,075 a month, 23.5% below the national figure, or roughly $12,900 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 31.7% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2×, 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. 50.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Berkeley city is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 31.7% of median income while homes cost only 2× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. A median age of 28.4 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.