Peculiar, MO population, income and ZIP codes

Peculiar city is a mid-size town in Missouri, with 5,815 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #130 of 1,082 ranked by population — larger than 88% of them. The median age here is 33.1 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 Peculiar city earn a median of $96,250 a year, 22.6% above the national figure of $78,538 and 73% 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 4.1% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Peculiar city is valued at $252,400, 16.8% below the national figure and 66% above the $152,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,152 a month, 18.1% below the national figure, or roughly $13,824 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 14.4% 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 2.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 73.4% 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.

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.