Hermitage, MO population, income and ZIP codes

Hermitage city is a very small community in Missouri, with 683 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #448 of 1,082 ranked by population — larger than 58% of them. The median age here is 60.4 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 Hermitage city earn a median of $22,813 a year, 71% below the national figure of $78,538 and 59% 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 48.3% 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 Hermitage city is valued at $103,100, 66% below the national figure and 32% below the $152,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $678 a month, 51.8% below the national figure, or roughly $8,136 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 35.7% 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 4.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 66.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 60.4 puts Hermitage 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 683 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Hermitage city against its county rather than against national figures.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.