Waynesville, MO population, income and ZIP codes

Waynesville city is a mid-size town in Missouri, with 5,422 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #138 of 1,082 ranked by population — larger than 87% of them. The median age here is 34.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Waynesville city earn a median of $75,179 a year, 4.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 35% above 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 11.9% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Waynesville city is valued at $204,100, 32.7% below the national figure and 34% above the $152,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $899 a month, 36.1% below the national figure, or roughly $10,788 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 14.3% 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 2.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 60.9% 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.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.