Silex, MO population, income and ZIP codes

Silex city is a very small community in Missouri, with 383 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #584 of 1,082 ranked by population — larger than 46% of them. The median age here is 40.4 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 Silex city earn a median of not published a year. 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 13.8% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Silex city is valued at $176,100, 42% below the national figure and 16% above the $152,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $688 a month, 51.1% below the national figure, or roughly $8,256 across a full year. 78.4% 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.

With 383 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Silex city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Silex city 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.