Wayland, MO population, income and ZIP codes

Wayland city is a very small community in Missouri, with 489 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #523 of 1,082 ranked by population — larger than 51% of them. The median age here is 45.1 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 Wayland city earn a median of not published a year. 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 8.4% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Wayland city is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $606 a month, 56.9% below the national figure, or roughly $7,272 across a full year. 87.4% 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 489 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Wayland city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, home value for Wayland 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.