City · Clinton County, Missouri

Cameron, Missouri

Cameron is a city in Clinton County, Missouri, part of the Kansas City, MO-KS metro area. It has 8,519 residents. Cameron, Missouri has a quality-of-life score of 36 out of 100 (low), ranking #9,962 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Missouri it ranks #230 of 375 cities and towns. It ranks best on rent as share of income (low), property crime rate (low) and rent-burdened households (low). It ranks worst on hospital quality rating (low), public EV charging ports (low) and gyms and fitness centers (low).

36Low

Quality-of-life score: #9,962 of 15,651 cities and towns
Missouri: #230 of 375 in MO
Population: 8,519 (2020-2024)
Land area: 7 mi²
Density: 1,227.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 2910828

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 76 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.

Safety56#6,829/15,637
Economy33#10,543/15,631
Housing95#679/14,977
Health31#10,808/15,609
Healthcare9#14,273/15,650
Environment67#5,074/15,453
Education43#8,967/15,649
Infrastructure41#9,221/15,650
Community36#10,053/15,651
Leisure & amenities6#14,785/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Cameron, Missouri ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Clinton 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 as share of income · low23.3%
96/100Missouri 28.1%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Property crime rate · low361 /100k
95/100Missouri 1,644 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureClinton County value
Rent-burdened households · low31.4%
95/100Missouri 45.6%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Time spent in the emergency room · low108 min
93/100Missouri 161 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesClinton County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Missouri 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteClinton County value
Loneliness · low31.8%
84/100Missouri 32.5%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Hospital quality rating · low1.0
1/100Missouri 3.1United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesClinton County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Missouri 5.3 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyClinton County value
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.0 /10k
4/100Missouri 1.2 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsClinton County value
Preventable hospital stays · high4,467 /100k
4/100Missouri 3,034 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteClinton County value
Mental health providers · low46 /100k
5/100Missouri 278 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteClinton County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low42.7%
7/100Missouri 76.6%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteClinton County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
9,665 (2015-2019) → 8,519 (2020-2024)
−12%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedImproving
0.7 /1k (2021) → 3.3 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+392%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
78.2% (2015-2019) → 87.3% (2020-2024)
+9 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.2× (2015-2019) → 3.1× (2020-2024)
+40%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Child poverty rateImproving
22.2% (2015-2019) → 15.2% (2020-2024)
−7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Median household incomeImproving
$50,544 (2015-2019) → $61,791 (2020-2024)
+22%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604

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, Cameron, Missouri improved on 1 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 11 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

Household income+22%$50,544 → $61,791

Declined1

Price / income+0.9×2.2× → 3.1×

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Cameron, Missouri between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	26.0 min2015-2019	22.4 min2020-2024	−3.6 min	Within the margin of error	83%
Bachelor's degree or higher	11.5%2015-2019	12.8%2020-2024	+1.3 points	Within the margin of error	37%
Broadband subscriptions	78.2%2015-2019	87.3%2020-2024	+9 points	Within the margin of error	55%
Child poverty rate	22.2%2015-2019	15.2%2020-2024	−7 points	Within the margin of error	75%
Effective property tax rate	0.93%2015-2019	0.81%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	40%
High school diploma or higher	84.9%2015-2019	87.3%2020-2024	+2.4 points	Within the margin of error	63%
Home price to income ratio	2.2×2015-2019	3.1×2020-2024	+0.9×	Declined	27%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3562015-2019	0.4072020-2024	+0.051	Within the margin of error	16%
Median household income	$50,5442015-2019	$61,7912020-2024	+22%	Improved	38%
Poverty rate	13.9%2015-2019	15.7%2020-2024	+1.8 points	Within the margin of error	27%
Rent as share of income	23.1%2015-2019	23.3%2020-2024	+0.2 points	Within the margin of error	53%
Rent-burdened households	32.6%2015-2019	31.4%2020-2024	−1.3 points	Within the margin of error	61%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	11.9%2015-2019	14.2%2020-2024	+2.3 points	Within the margin of error	23%

“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 Cameron, Missouri five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Cameron, 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, Cameron, Missouri itself moved −3.9 points in standing on average over the same 10 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

8,519 residents (±263)

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

2,754 households (±298)

Cameron, Missouri
Missouri share

Under $25k20%†546
$25k–50k14%†377
$50k–75k29%

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,754 households (±298)

Cameron, Missouri
Missouri share

Own57%1,563
Rent43%†1,191

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

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

2,939 workers (±326)

Cameron, Missouri
Missouri share

Drive alone73%2,150
Carpool16%†462
Public transit0.0%†

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Kansas City, MO-KS

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 Clinton County, the county holding most of Cameron's residents.

Clinton County has 392 employer establishments, 182 for every 10,000 residents (0.73× the US rate of 248; 0.75× Missouri's), with 2,947 paid employees at an average annual pay of $41,897. The Census Bureau also counts 1,547 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 392; 1,547 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 182; US 248 · Missouri 244
Paid employees: 2,947
Average annual pay: $41,897; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	52	24.2	1.56×More than typical	217	$47,705	166
Ambulatory health care services	33	15.3	0.74×Fewer than typical	201	$52,881	46
Building equipment contractors	23	10.7	1.78×More than typical	90	$44,633	25
Other specialty trade contractors	20	9.3	3.70×More than typical	78	$46,910	63
Lessors of real estate	17	7.9	0.64×Fewer than typical	33	$24,879	168
Restaurants and other eating places	17	7.9	0.43×Fewer than typical	226	$17,058	9
Truck transportation	17	7.9	1.56×More than typical	43	$50,442	51
Gasoline stations	15	7	2.15×More than typical	248	$35,617	—
Construction of buildings	14	6.5	0.86×About typical	27	$54,926	56
Outpatient care centers	14	6.5	3.53×More than typical	83	$45,602	—
Religious organizations	14	6.5	1.17×About typical	53	$21,528	—
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors	13	6	1.83×More than typical	60	$41,417	15

Rank places for an industry Open Clinton County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 21,530 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

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Cameron, Missouri: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

960.3FY2020

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Cameron, Missouri, so they do not add up across cities.

Cameron, Missouri's figures are part of those of Clinton County, MO, DeKalb County, MO and Caldwell County, MO ($58.2K in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

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

See federal money in Clinton 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.

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

House

Sam GravesR-MO-6 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 7.0%

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.

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Kansas City, MO-KS73

Other cities and towns in Clinton 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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