Plato, MO population, income and ZIP codes

Plato village is a very small community in Missouri, with 195 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #743 of 1,082 ranked by population — larger than 31% of them. The median age here is 17.6 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 Plato village earn a median of $57,750 a year, 26.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 4% 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 1% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Plato village is valued at $146,700, 51.6% below the national figure and 4% below the $152,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 96.1% 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. 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.

A median age of 17.6 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address. With 195 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Plato village against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Plato village 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.