Catron, MO population, income and ZIP codes

Catron town is a very small community in Missouri, with 52 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #972 of 1,082 ranked by population — larger than 10% of them. The median age here is 49.3 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 Catron town earn a median of $41,042 a year, 47.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 26% below the $55,543 median for the 374 Missouri cities we cover. 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 28.8% 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 Catron town is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 79.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

With 52 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Catron town against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value, gross rent for Catron town 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.