Cooter vs Steele

A side-by-side comparison of Cooter and Steele: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Steele has the higher population (1,449 vs 307 in Cooter). Cooter has the higher median household income ($50,714 vs $33,750 in Steele). Steele has the higher median home value ($115,900 vs $79,200 in Cooter).

Population, income & housing

	Cooter	Steele
Population	307	1,449
Median age	39.4 yrs	34.3 yrs
Median household income	$50,714	$33,750
Median home value	$79,200	$115,900
Median gross rent	$689	$729
Housing units	167	807
Homeownership rate	56.3%	51.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	12.0%	16.6%
Unemployment rate	4.4%	22.6%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Cooter	Steele
Population	348 → 307 (-11.8%)	1,976 → 1,449 (-26.7%)
Median household income	$40,694 → $50,714 (+24.6%)	$30,577 → $33,750 (+10.4%)
Median home value	$63,900 → $79,200 (+23.9%)	$89,000 → $115,900 (+30.2%)
Median gross rent	$672 → $689 (+2.5%)	$525 → $729 (+38.9%)

Cooter

Population

348307

Median household income

$40,694$50,714

Median home value

$63,900$79,200

Median gross rent

$672$689

Steele

Population

1,9761,449

Median household income

$30,577$33,750

Median home value

$89,000$115,900

Median gross rent

$525$729

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Cooter	Steele
Under 5	4.9%	7.9%
5 to 17	24.4%	20.7%
18 to 24	2.9%	6.1%
25 to 34	10.7%	18.5%
35 to 44	14.3%	7.6%
45 to 54	19.9%	14.7%
55 to 64	7.8%	8.3%
65 to 74	13.4%	5.5%
75 and over	1.6%	10.8%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Cooter	Steele
White (non-Hispanic)	93.2%	76.1%
Black or African American	0.0%	15.5%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	5.5%	8.5%
Hispanic or Latino	1.3%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Cooter	Steele
No high school diploma	21.6%	14.0%
High school graduate	51.4%	39.5%
Some college or associate's	14.9%	29.9%
Bachelor's degree	6.7%	12.2%
Graduate or professional degree	5.3%	4.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Cooter	Steele
Drove alone	93.1%	72.6%
Carpooled	6.1%	16.6%
Public transit	0.0%	1.4%
Walked	0.0%	1.6%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	0.8%	5.3%
Other means	0.0%	2.4%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Cooter	Steele
1-unit, detached	69.5%	86.7%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	12.4%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.4%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	30.5%	0.5%

Poverty & households

	Cooter	Steele
Poverty rate	22.0%	27.5%
Average household size	2.16	2.43
Mean commute (minutes)	17	18
Median year structure built	1973	1970