Pilot Grove, MO population, income and ZIP codes

Pilot Grove city is a very small community in Missouri, with 646 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #465 of 1,082 ranked by population — larger than 57% of them. The median age here is 43.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Pilot Grove city earn a median of $63,750 a year, 18.8% below the national figure of $78,538 and 15% above the $55,543 median for the 374 Missouri cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 7.6% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Pilot Grove city is valued at $118,300, 61% below the national figure and 22% below the $152,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $656 a month, 53.3% below the national figure, or roughly $7,872 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 12.3% 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 1.9×, 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. 71.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

With 646 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Pilot Grove 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.