Tightwad, MO population, income and ZIP codes

Tightwad village is a very small community in Missouri, with 79 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #912 of 1,082 ranked by population — larger than 15% of them. The median age here is 62.5 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 Tightwad village earn a median of $97,946 a year, 24.7% above the national figure of $78,538 and 76% 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 5.1% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Tightwad village is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 78.4% 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.

A median age of 62.5 puts Tightwad village well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 79 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Tightwad village against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value, gross rent for Tightwad 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.