ZIP code 65734

ZIP 65734 is a small town in Barry County, Missouri, with 3,852 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #331 of 1,035 ranked by population — larger than 68% of them. The median age here is 32.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 ZIP 65734 earn a median of $54,418 a year, 30.7% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 15.8% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 65734 is valued at $170,700, 43.7% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $644 a month, 54.2% below the national figure, or roughly $7,728 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 14.2% 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 3.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 78.8% 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.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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 65734 is tabulated inside Barry County, Missouri, one of 12 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 65734 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 65734 reports a median household income of $54,418, close to the $53,843 county median, and 10% below the $60,651 typical MO ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $170,700, close to the county figure and 5% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $644 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 65734 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 65734 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.