Malta Bend, MO population, income and ZIP codes

Malta Bend town is a very small community in Missouri, with 168 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #782 of 1,082 ranked by population — larger than 27% of them. The median age here is 37.3 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 Malta Bend town earn a median of $48,750 a year, 37.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 12% 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 12% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Malta Bend town is valued at $79,200, 73.9% below the national figure and 48% below the $152,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 1.6×, 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. 91.4% 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.

With 168 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Malta Bend town against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Malta Bend 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.