ZIP code 65542

ZIP 65542 is a mid-size town in Texas County, Missouri, with 6,921 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #242 of 1,035 ranked by population — larger than 76% of them. The median age here is 38.9 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 ZIP 65542 earn a median of $47,900 a year, 39% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 15.1% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 65542 is valued at $114,200, 62.4% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $706 a month, 49.8% below the national figure, or roughly $8,472 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.7% 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 2.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 77% 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.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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 65542 is tabulated inside Texas County, Missouri, one of 14 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 1,035 across Missouri. Population sits in the small-town band, typically one main street plus the addresses that feed into it. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 65542 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 65542 reports a median household income of $47,900, close to the $48,000 county median, and 21% below the $60,651 typical MO ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $114,200, close to the county figure and 30% below the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $706 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Missouri charges 4.225% statewide, and local governments overlapping 65542 may add county, city or special-district levies on top. We publish the state floor for this ZIP rather than guessing a combined figure, because ZIP boundaries and taxing-district boundaries were drawn for different purposes and do not line up.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 65542 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.