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Wellston city, Missouri: commercial real estate data.
Wellston city is a Census city of 1,628 people across 0.93 square miles of land, in St. Louis County. Median household income is $44,957, 49.3 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Wellston
What Wellston is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.93 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,746 plus or minus 416
- County holding the largest share of its areaSt. Louis County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wellston
How many people live in Wellston
- Population1,628 plus or minus 388
- Median age48.1 plus or minus 22.5
- Population under 18375 plus or minus 126
- Share under 1823.0 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Population 65 and over145 plus or minus 59
- Share 65 and over8.9 percent plus or minus 2.9
- Households785 plus or minus 185
- Family households440 plus or minus 176
- Share of households that are families56.1 percent plus or minus 18.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wellston
Income and work in Wellston
- Median household income$44,957 plus or minus $33,792
- Per capita income$23,967 plus or minus $6,140
- Civilian labor force825 plus or minus 310
- Employed725 plus or minus 295
- Unemployed100 plus or minus 75
- Unemployment rate12.1 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Adults 25 and over1,167 plus or minus 342
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher89.7 percent plus or minus 35.5
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher12.5 percent plus or minus 11.6
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.4 percent plus or minus 3.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wellston
Housing in Wellston
- Housing units1,113
- Occupied units785 plus or minus 185
- Vacant units328 plus or minus 108
- Vacancy rate29.5 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Owner occupied387 plus or minus 153
- Renter occupied398 plus or minus 120
- Ownership rate49.3 percent plus or minus 15.6
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,005
- Annual rent as a share of median income26.8 percent plus or minus 20.8
- Single family units799 plus or minus 215
- Share single family71.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more297 plus or minus 165
- Share in buildings of two or more26.7 percent plus or minus 14.0
- Mobile homes17 plus or minus 27
- Median year structure built1955
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wellston
How Wellston gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute682 plus or minus 297
- Commuting under 15 minutes217 plus or minus 270
- Share commuting under 15 minutes31.8 percent plus or minus 37.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more106 plus or minus 69
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more15.5 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Drove alone72.5 percent plus or minus 27.1
- Carpooled4.7 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Public transport16.4 percent plus or minus 10.1
- Walked1.3 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Worked from home5.1 percent plus or minus 3.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
St. Louis County, not Wellston
St. Louis County context, not Wellston figures
These are St. Louis County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Wellston measurements.
- Establishments in St. Louis County29,717
- Employment at those establishments, St. Louis County629,036
- Covered employment, St. Louis County596,676
- Average annual pay, St. Louis County$75,926
- Average weekly wage, St. Louis County$1,460
- Housing units permitted, St. Louis County1,193
- Of those, single family, St. Louis County687
- County product, 2024, St. Louis County$114,807,071,000
- County product change over the prior year, St. Louis County4.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, St. Louis County$94,672
Every figure in this section is published for St. Louis County as a whole and is not a measurement of Wellston. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- No median owner-occupied home value is published for this place.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Wellston questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Wellston, Missouri?
1,628, in 785 households. Wellston city covers 0.93 square miles of land, which is 1,746 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Wellston in?
St. Louis County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Wellston?
$44,957. Median gross rent is $1,005 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Wellston figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for St. Louis County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Wellston.
Is zoning published for Wellston?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.