Knob Noster, MO population, income and ZIP codes

Knob Noster city is a small town in Missouri, with 2,824 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #211 of 1,082 ranked by population — larger than 80% of them. The median age here is 31 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Knob Noster city earn a median of $60,294 a year, 23.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 9% above 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 11.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Knob Noster city is valued at $146,700, 51.6% below the national figure and 4% below the $152,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $872 a month, 38% below the national figure, or roughly $10,464 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.4×, 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. 52.6% 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.

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.