Poplar Bluff vs Qulin

A side-by-side comparison of Poplar Bluff and Qulin: population, income, housing, and more.

Poplar Bluff and Qulin are places in Missouri. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Poplar Bluff has the higher population (16,243 vs 673 in Qulin). Poplar Bluff has the higher median household income ($42,035 vs $23,713 in Qulin). Poplar Bluff has the higher median home value ($109,700 vs $71,500 in Qulin).

Population, income & housing

	Poplar Bluff	Qulin
Population	16,243	673
Median age	36.7 yrs	40.2 yrs
Median household income	$42,035	$23,713
Median home value	$109,700	$71,500
Median gross rent	$760	$633
Housing units	7,654	258
Homeownership rate	51.4%	46.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	16.0%	3.2%
Unemployment rate	6.4%	4.4%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Poplar Bluff	Qulin
Population	17,023 → 16,243 (-4.6%)	734 → 673 (-8.3%)
Median household income	$30,370 → $42,035 (+38.4%)	$27,778 → $23,713 (-14.6%)
Median home value	$92,400 → $109,700 (+18.7%)	$57,000 → $71,500 (+25.4%)
Median gross rent	$677 → $760 (+12.3%)	$644 → $633 (-1.7%)

Poplar Bluff

Population

17,02316,243

Median household income

$30,370$42,035

Median home value

$92,400$109,700

Median gross rent

$677$760

Qulin

Population

734673

Median household income

$27,778$23,713

Median home value

$57,000$71,500

Median gross rent

$644$633

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Poplar Bluff	Qulin
Under 5	8.1%	4.2%
5 to 17	16.0%	9.2%
18 to 24	8.8%	22.3%
25 to 34	14.4%	9.7%
35 to 44	12.1%	26.2%
45 to 54	9.2%	3.1%
55 to 64	12.5%	8.2%
65 to 74	10.4%	9.7%
75 and over	8.6%	7.6%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Poplar Bluff	Qulin
White (non-Hispanic)	77.6%	92.9%
Black or African American	8.9%	4.6%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.5%	0.0%
Asian	1.6%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.2%	0.0%
Some other race	1.8%	0.0%
Two or more races	7.0%	2.5%
Hispanic or Latino	2.4%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Poplar Bluff	Qulin
No high school diploma	16.6%	44.3%
High school graduate	41.5%	29.3%
Some college or associate's	26.0%	23.1%
Bachelor's degree	10.6%	3.2%
Graduate or professional degree	5.4%	0.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Poplar Bluff	Qulin
Drove alone	79.1%	49.6%
Carpooled	12.5%	48.5%
Public transit	0.7%	0.0%
Walked	2.5%	0.7%
Bicycle	0.4%	0.0%
Worked from home	3.5%	1.1%
Other means	1.4%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Poplar Bluff	Qulin
1-unit, detached	75.7%	60.5%
1-unit, attached	1.1%	3.1%
2 to 4 units	14.6%	7.8%
5 to 19 units	4.3%	1.6%
20 or more units	3.2%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	1.0%	27.1%

Poverty & households

	Poplar Bluff	Qulin
Poverty rate	23.5%	38.6%
Average household size	2.47	3.09
Mean commute (minutes)	17	26
Median year structure built	1971	1978