ZIP 63341 vs ZIP 63367

This side-by-side compares ZIP 63341 (Defiance, MO) and ZIP 63367 (Lake Saint Louis, MO) using the same Census ACS 5-Year table fields for both — no averages swapped in, no national proxies. ZIP 63341 has a population of 3,530 at 25 people per square mile, while ZIP 63367 has 19,433 at 561 per square mile. That difference in population size and density alone reshapes how every other metric should be interpreted — a higher-income ZIP with 1,200 residents behaves very differently from one with 45,000.

On income and education, ZIP 63341 reports a median household income of $170,598 against $137,648 in ZIP 63367, with per-capita income of $91,428 vs $59,320. The share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher is 54.1% in 63341 and 52.0% in 63367. Poverty rate reads 6.2% vs 3.2%, and unemployment 2.3% vs 3.8% — these four fields alone drive most of the difference in the scorecard grades you will see for each ZIP.

Housing separates these two ZIPs further: median home value sits at $606,800 in 63341 versus $409,100 in 63367, with median rent of — and $1,634 per month respectively. Homeownership rate is 95.5% vs 81.5%. When reading the comparison table below, focus on paired metrics rather than single winners — a ZIP with lower home values and lower income is not strictly "worse" if rent-to-income ratios and commute times land in the same zone. Every value is pulled from the exact same ACS table so the two columns are genuinely comparable.