
Missouri · FIPS 29203
Shannon ZIP codes — Shannon County, Missouri
Quick answer
Shannon County is home to 7,137 residents with a median household income of $59,000 and a median home value of $151,000. 83.2% of households own their home and 16.7% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Shannon ZIP code? 5 ZIP code areas fall inside Shannon County, Missouri, listed in full below.
- Population
- 7,137Shannon County residents
- Median household income
- $59,000Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $151,000Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $509Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 45.5 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 83.2%Owner-occupied households
Shannon County, MO in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Shannon County is a mid-size town in Missouri, with 7,137 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 45.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Shannon County earn a median of $59,000 a year, 24.9% below the national figure of $78,538. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 16.7% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in Shannon County is valued at $151,000, 50.2% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $509 a month, 63.8% below the national figure, or roughly $6,108 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 10.4% 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 2.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 83.2% 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.
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.
ZIP codes in Shannon County
ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Shannon County.
How to read this page
What these estimates cover.
Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Cities and towns in Missouri
Largest Census places in Missouri by population.
- Kansas City city 508,233
- St. Louis city 293,109
- Springfield city 169,432
- Columbia city 127,200
- Independence city 121,944
- Lee's Summit city 102,583
- O'Fallon city 92,697
- St. Joseph city 71,542
- St. Charles city 71,048
- Blue Springs city 59,416
- St. Peters city 58,200
- Joplin city 52,218
Nearby counties
Other counties in Missouri.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Shannon County?
- Shannon County has 7,137 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
- What is the median household income in Shannon County?
- Median household income in Shannon County is $59,000 a year, 24.9% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Shannon County?
- Median gross rent is $509 a month and the median home value is $151,000, so rent absorbs about 10.4% of median household income.
- Is Shannon County affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 2.6× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Shannon County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 10.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Shannon County data?
- All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.