Tallapoosa, MO population, income and ZIP codes

Tallapoosa city is a very small community in Missouri, with 69 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #938 of 1,082 ranked by population — larger than 13% of them. The median age here is 45.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Tallapoosa city earn a median of $58,500 a year, 25.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 5% above the $55,543 median for the 374 Missouri cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 14.5% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Tallapoosa city is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 95.8% 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. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

With 69 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Tallapoosa city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value, gross rent for Tallapoosa 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.