64870Webb City, Missouri

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 64870.

68out of 100
Area Score
Top 23% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 19% of 6,210 published ZIP areas71
SchoolsTop 12% of 4,422 published ZIP areas82
Growth2982nd of 5,428 published ZIP areas48
Housing affordabilityTop 9% of 6,685 published ZIP areas100
ClimateTop 44% of 6,789 published ZIP areas71
Physical resilience3908th of 6,709 published ZIP areas50
Access6285th of 6,791 published ZIP areas63
Economic stability4857th of 6,742 published ZIP areas46
The quick read

64870 ranks in the top 19% of published ZIP profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.7% and median household income of $68,300.

24 housing units were authorized over the past twelve months, within 9% of the prior year — steady rather than turning.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 18% of median household income and the median home is 2.6 times it.

At a glance

Population
16,186
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$68,300
Bottom 44% nationally
Density
481/sq mi
33.6 sq mi of land
Median age
33.3
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Webb City
Missouri
Metro area
Joplin, MO-KS
Nearest major airport
SGF
60 mi · Springfield-Branson Ntl
Median home value
$177,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.7% is lower than 78% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment grew 1.0% over the past year, to 59,845 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$6,551$68,300Bottom 44%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,561$30,243Bottom 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate17.9%Top 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute19.6 minBottom 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher29.3%Top 36%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment59,845Top 47%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)2.0%Top 25%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)1.0%Top 12%June 2026
Labor force62,123Top 47%June 2026
Labor force participation61.9%Top 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$53,370Bottom 3%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$44,980Bottom 8%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.5%Bottom 18%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.7%Bottom 22%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202468k57k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $68,300 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Joplin, MO-KS
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers3,470$47,430
Registered Nurses2,670$74,930
Stockers and Order Fillers2,620$35,460
Retail Salespersons2,420$30,740
Cashiers2,400$29,050
Home Health and Personal Care Aides2,050$34,800

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Webb City, MO, the city containing this ZIP code.

56% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 61% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.6 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
10
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
55.9%
Top 8% in Missouri
Reading proficiency
60.6%
Top 14% in Missouri
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
WEBB CITY HIGHWEBB CITY R-VII1,38115.7
WEBB CITY JR. HIGHWEBB CITY R-VII70915.445%58%
WEBB CITY MIDDLEWEBB CITY R-VII68115.549%51%
WEBSTER PRIMARY CTR.WEBB CITY R-VII35614.8
HARRY S. TRUMAN ELEM.WEBB CITY R-VII28716.979%77%
EUGENE FIELD ELEM.WEBB CITY R-VII22215.972%72%
HERITAGE PRESCHOOLWEBB CITY R-VII20218.4
BESS TRUMAN PRIMARY CTR.WEBB CITY R-VII18814.5
MARK TWAIN ELEM.WEBB CITY R-VII18615.567%67%
MADGE T. JAMES KIND. CTR.WEBB CITY R-VII17914.9

47.4% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Missouri’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,018 takes 18% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.6 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
17.9%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.6×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,018
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$177,700
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.60Bottom 33%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate64.6%Bottom 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3876,573Top 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$91$1,018Top 50%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$12,528$177,700Bottom 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income17.9%Top 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate6.0%Bottom 28%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
48/ 100
Ranks 2982 of 5,428 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 1.8 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
24
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
1.8
Bottom 38% nationally
Year over year
+9%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Webb City, MO, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

7 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 90°F and January a low of 25°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 45.6 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 41, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station JOPLIN REGIONAL AIRPORT, 2.8 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND6.6"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index61.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation45.6"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low25°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high90°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index41.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing45°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
41
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
61
90th percentile index
Days above 100
0
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

50 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, tornado and heat wave.

Ice stormElevated
TornadoElevated
Heat waveModerate
DroughtElevated
HailElevated
LightningModerate
Strong windModerate
Winter weatherModerate
Inland floodingModerate
EarthquakeModerate
Cold waveElevated

Low or minimal exposure: wildfire, hurricane, landslide.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Jasper County records 2.6 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 14.4 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 8.0 per 100,000 residents in Jasper County.

Homicide
2.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
8.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
16.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Jasper County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 64870 rather than 64870 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 60 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Springfield-Branson NtlSGF60 mi8,000 ft
Northwest Arkansas NtlXNA63 mi8,801 ft
Tulsa IntlTUL104 mi10,000 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

64870 vs Webb City

How this ZIP area compares with Webb City as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

64870
Webb City
Median household income
$68,300
vs
$65,469
Per capita income
$30,243
vs
$28,627
Population density
481/sq mi
vs
1,522/sq mi
Median home value
$177,700
vs
$169,100
Median gross rent
$1,018
vs
$1,008
Homeownership rate
64.6%
vs
58.2%
Bachelor's degree or higher
29.3%
vs
26.7%
Poverty rate
17.9%
vs
20.5%
Median age
33.3
vs
31.9

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.