Garden City vs Peculiar

A side-by-side comparison of Garden City and Peculiar: population, income, housing, and more.

Garden City and Peculiar are places in Missouri. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Peculiar has the higher population (5,815 vs 1,539 in Garden City). Peculiar has the higher median household income ($96,250 vs $63,625 in Garden City). Peculiar has the higher median home value ($252,400 vs $165,200 in Garden City).

Population, income & housing

	Garden City	Peculiar
Population	1,539	5,815
Median age	36.3 yrs	33.1 yrs
Median household income	$63,625	$96,250
Median home value	$165,200	$252,400
Median gross rent	$863	$1,152
Housing units	691	2,139
Homeownership rate	65.8%	73.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	8.0%	21.5%
Unemployment rate	4.1%	4.2%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Garden City	Peculiar
Population	1,345 → 1,539 (+14.4%)	5,139 → 5,815 (+13.2%)
Median household income	$52,333 → $63,625 (+21.6%)	$62,708 → $96,250 (+53.5%)
Median home value	$102,300 → $165,200 (+61.5%)	$147,000 → $252,400 (+71.7%)
Median gross rent	$725 → $863 (+19.0%)	$890 → $1,152 (+29.4%)

Garden City

Population

1,3451,539

Median household income

$52,333$63,625

Median home value

$102,300$165,200

Median gross rent

$725$863

Peculiar

Population

5,1395,815

Median household income

$62,708$96,250

Median home value

$147,000$252,400

Median gross rent

$890$1,152

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Garden City	Peculiar
Under 5	4.1%	10.5%
5 to 17	25.1%	19.0%
18 to 24	4.8%	7.7%
25 to 34	11.9%	15.6%
35 to 44	12.6%	16.5%
45 to 54	12.7%	13.7%
55 to 64	10.7%	5.1%
65 to 74	8.4%	7.2%
75 and over	9.7%	4.7%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Garden City	Peculiar
White (non-Hispanic)	88.5%	78.5%
Black or African American	0.0%	4.1%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	1.2%	1.0%
Two or more races	7.5%	7.0%
Hispanic or Latino	2.8%	9.3%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Garden City	Peculiar
No high school diploma	8.1%	8.7%
High school graduate	53.1%	31.5%
Some college or associate's	30.9%	38.3%
Bachelor's degree	7.4%	15.0%
Graduate or professional degree	0.6%	6.5%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Garden City	Peculiar
Drove alone	83.9%	69.3%
Carpooled	12.6%	5.7%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	3.5%	21.9%
Other means	0.0%	3.1%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Garden City	Peculiar
1-unit, detached	79.9%	81.0%
1-unit, attached	4.1%	2.4%
2 to 4 units	7.2%	11.5%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	3.6%
20 or more units	0.9%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	8.0%	1.5%

Poverty & households

	Garden City	Peculiar
Poverty rate	3.5%	4.1%
Average household size	2.61	2.87
Mean commute (minutes)	30	27
Median year structure built	1982	1995