What is the population of Slater city?

Slater city has 2,144 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #260 of 1,082 in Missouri.

What is the median household income in Slater city?

Median household income in Slater city is $40,313 a year, 48.7% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Slater city?

Median gross rent is $496 a month and the median home value is $82,500, so rent absorbs about 14.8% of median household income.

Is Slater city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Slater city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 14.8% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Slater, MO population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Slater, Missouri (Slater, MO — Census place “Slater city”) is 2,144 residents, ranking #260 of 1082 places in Missouri. Median household income is $40,313, the median home is worth $82,500 and median gross rent runs $496 a month. Looking for the Slater Missouri ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Slater, MO: 65349.

Population: 2,144Slater city residents
Median household income: $40,313Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $82,500Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $496Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 40.4 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 59.8%Owner-occupied households

Slater ZIP codes (Missouri)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Slater.

The Slater MO ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

65349

What the numbers mean in Slater city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Slater city median would spend about 14.8% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 2.0× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 22.5% of residents and 59.8% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Slater city, MO in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Slater city is a small town in Missouri, with 2,144 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #260 of 1,082 ranked by population — larger than 76% 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 Slater city earn a median of $40,313 a year, 48.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 27% 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 22.5% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Slater city is valued at $82,500, 72.8% below the national figure and 46% below the $152,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $496 a month, 64.7% below the national figure, or roughly $5,952 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 14.8% 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×, 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. 59.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Slater city?: Slater city has 2,144 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #260 of 1,082 in Missouri.
What is the median household income in Slater city?: Median household income in Slater city is $40,313 a year, 48.7% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Slater city?: Median gross rent is $496 a month and the median home value is $82,500, so rent absorbs about 14.8% of median household income.
Is Slater city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Slater city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 14.8% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Slater city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.