City · Crawford County, Missouri

Bourbon, Missouri

Bourbon is a city in Crawford County, Missouri. It has 1,636 residents. Bourbon, Missouri has a quality-of-life score of 31 out of 100 (low), ranking #10,832 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Missouri it ranks #270 of 375 cities and towns. It ranks best on rent-burdened households (low), voter turnout (high) and job growth (high). It ranks worst on primary care physicians (low), dentists (low) and public EV charging ports (low).

31Low

Quality-of-life score: #10,832 of 15,651 cities and towns
Missouri: #270 of 375 in MO
Population: 1,636 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,223.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 2907534

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety27#11,390/15,637
Economy27#11,369/15,631
Housing84#2,452/14,977
Health5#14,753/15,609
Healthcare1#15,502/15,650
Environment87#1,987/15,453
Education40#9,397/15,649
Infrastructure24#11,827/15,650
Community73#4,166/15,651
Leisure & amenities18#12,898/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Bourbon, Missouri ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Crawford County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Rent-burdened households · low35.3%
89/100Missouri 45.6%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Voter turnout · high76.3%
89/100Missouri 66.7%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionCrawford County value
Job growth · high2.0%
88/100Missouri 0.1%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataCrawford County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Missouri 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCrawford County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.376
83/100Missouri 0.465United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Public libraries · high1.3 /10k
83/100Missouri 0.6 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesCrawford County value

Weaknesses

Primary care physicians · low4 /100k
0/100Missouri 72 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2021University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCrawford County value
Dentists · low13 /100k
2/100Missouri 64 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCrawford County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Missouri 5.3 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyCrawford County value
Mental health providers · low40 /100k
4/100Missouri 278 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCrawford County value
Premature death · high14,600 /100k
5/100Missouri 9,683 /100kUnited States 8,123 /100k2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCrawford County value
Injury deaths · high142 /100k
5/100Missouri 106 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCrawford County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
1,946 (2015-2019) → 1,636 (2020-2024)
−16%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
69.6% (2015-2019) → 89.9% (2020-2024)
+20 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
High school diploma or higherImproving
71.7% (2015-2019) → 84.6% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
8.1% (2015-2019) → 15.3% (2020-2024)
+7.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Child poverty rateImproving
42.4% (2015-2019) → 35.3% (2020-2024)
−7.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
28.6% (2015-2019) → 35.3% (2020-2024)
+6.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Bourbon, Missouri improved on 1 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 12 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Broadband+20 points69.6% → 89.9%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Bourbon, Missouri between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	25.1 min2015-2019	29.3 min2020-2024	+4.2 min	Within the margin of error	13%
Bachelor's degree or higher	8.1%2015-2019	15.3%2020-2024	+7.2 points	Within the margin of error	80%
Broadband subscriptions	69.6%2015-2019	89.9%2020-2024	+20 points	Improved	90%
Child poverty rate	42.4%2015-2019	35.3%2020-2024	−7.1 points	Within the margin of error	75%
High school diploma or higher	71.7%2015-2019	84.6%2020-2024	+13 points	Within the margin of error	98%
Home price to income ratio	1.9×2015-2019	2.6×2020-2024	+0.6×	Within the margin of error	39%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4972015-2019	0.3762020-2024	−0.121	Within the margin of error	98%
Median household income	$41,6252015-2019	$53,5332020-2024	+29%	Within the margin of error	52%
Poverty rate	23.9%2015-2019	20.6%2020-2024	−3.3 points	Within the margin of error	71%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	20.5%2015-2019	23.5%2020-2024	+3 points	Within the margin of error	33%
Rent-burdened households	28.6%2015-2019	35.3%2020-2024	+6.7 points	Within the margin of error	33%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	15.6%2015-2019	13.7%2020-2024	−1.9 points	Within the margin of error	68%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Bourbon, Missouri five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Bourbon, Missouri in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Bourbon, Missouri itself moved +7.8 points in standing on average over the same 9 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,636 residents (±340)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

651 households (±114)

Bourbon, Missouri
Missouri share

Under $25k21%†136
$25k–50k25%†165
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

651 households (±114)

Bourbon, Missouri
Missouri share

Own58%379
Rent42%272

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

767 workers (±155)

Bourbon, Missouri
Missouri share

Drive alone69%529
Carpool29%†224
Public transit0.0%0

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Crawford County, the county holding most of Bourbon's residents.

Crawford County has 496 employer establishments, 218 for every 10,000 residents (0.88× the US rate of 248; 0.89× Missouri's), with 5,686 paid employees at an average annual pay of $49,550. The Census Bureau also counts 1,642 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 496; 1,642 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 218; US 248 · Missouri 244
Paid employees: 5,686
Average annual pay: $49,550; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Crawford County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	35	15.4	0.74×Fewer than typical	242	$91,314	27
Specialty trade contractors	35	15.4	0.99×About typical	189	$53,143	203
Restaurants and other eating places	29	12.8	0.69×Fewer than typical	431	$21,652	7
Religious organizations	25	11	1.98×More than typical	84	$20,833	—
Limited-service restaurants	15	6.6	0.82×About typical	239	$24,146	3
Construction of buildings	14	6.2	0.81×About typical	57	$48,807	112
Fabricated metal product manufacturing	14	6.2	3.86×More than typical	394	$45,480	6
Offices of physicians	14	6.2	0.95×About typical	99	$146,303	4
Automotive repair and maintenance	13	5.7	1.14×About typical	63	$34,270	46
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	12	5.3	1.68×More than typical	108	$52,972	41
Full-service restaurants	12	5.3	0.69×Fewer than typical	157	$21,898	3
Gasoline stations	12	5.3	1.63×More than typical	145	$32,117	—

Rank places for an industry Open Crawford County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 22,729 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Bourbon is mostly in Crawford County.

See federal money in Crawford County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Bourbon, Missouri is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Robert F. Onder, Jr.R-MO-3 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 3.0%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Crawford County26100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Crawford County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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