Linn is a city in Osage County, Missouri, part of the Jefferson City, MO metro area. It has 1,197 residents. Linn, Missouri has a quality-of-life score of 46 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #8,429 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Missouri it ranks #162 of 375 cities and towns. It ranks best on voter turnout (high), violent crime rate (low) and job growth (high). It ranks worst on mental health providers (low), arts, entertainment and recreation (low) and primary care physicians (low).
46Moderate
Quality-of-life score
#8,429 of 15,651 cities and towns
Missouri
#162 of 375 in MO
Population
1,197 (2020-2024)
Land area
1 mi²
Density
1,026.5 /mi²
FIPS code
2943238
Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.
Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.
Safety84#2,431/15,637
Economy35#10,093/15,631
Housing57#6,472/14,977
Health41#9,277/15,609
Healthcare23#12,107/15,650
Environment61#6,072/15,453
Education80#3,137/15,649
Infrastructure11#13,900/15,650
Community73#4,217/15,651
Leisure & amenities4#15,039/15,651
Strengths · Weaknesses
Indicators where Linn, Missouri ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Osage 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.
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.
Cities and towns like Linn, Missouri five years ago that improved
The places whose measures looked most like those of Linn, 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.
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).
Income
How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.
Homes
Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.
Getting to work
How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.
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.
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.
Federal contracts performed here
Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Linn is mostly in Osage County.
Over about five years, Linn, Missouri improved on 1 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 10 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+18 points59.8% → 77.5%
Broadband subscriptions
59.8% → 77.5%2015-2019 → 2020-2024
+18 pointsBeyond the margin of error (±9.8 points)
Standing among cities and towns: 5 → 6 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
More favourable than 86% of cities and towns
Declined2
Price / income+2.2×2.4× → 4.6×
Home price to income ratio
2.4× → 4.6×2015-2019 → 2020-2024
+2.2×Beyond the margin of error (±1.3×)
Standing among cities and towns: 68 → 24 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
Less favourable than 97% of cities and towns
Inequality+0.1250.378 → 0.503
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.378 → 0.5032015-2019 → 2020-2024
+0.125Beyond the margin of error (±0.079)
Standing among cities and towns: 79 → 10 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
Less favourable than 98% of cities and towns
All 13 measures
Change of every measure of Linn, Missouri between two periods about five years apart
Measure
Before
After
Change
Reading
Favourable vs peers
Average commute time
27.1 min2015-2019
23.1 min2020-2024
−4.0 min
Within the margin of error
85%
Bachelor's degree or higher
19.5%2015-2019
23.6%2020-2024
+4.2 points
Within the margin of error
61%
Broadband subscriptions
59.8%2015-2019
77.5%2020-2024
+18 points
Improved
86%
Effective property tax rate
0.73%2015-2019
0.66%2020-2024
−0.1 points
Within the margin of error
30%
High school diploma or higher
89.4%2015-2019
87.5%2020-2024
−1.9 points
Within the margin of error
16%
Home price to income ratio
2.4×2015-2019
4.6×2020-2024
+2.2×
Declined
3%
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.3782015-2019
0.5032020-2024
+0.125
Declined
2%
Median household income
$46,7192015-2019
$36,1762020-2024
−23%
Within the margin of error
1%
Poverty rate
19.1%2015-2019
25.5%2020-2024
+6.4 points
Within the margin of error
9%
Public transit commuters
0.0%2015-2019
0.0%2020-2024
0 points
Within the margin of error
60%
Rent as share of income
25.7%2015-2019
34.3%2020-2024
+8.6 points
Within the margin of error
12%
Rent-burdened households
35.9%2015-2019
55.0%2020-2024
+19 points
Within the margin of error
9%
Uninsured residents (under 65)
10.6%2015-2019
9.8%2020-2024
−0.9 points
Within the margin of error
57%
“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.
For comparison, Linn, Missouri itself moved −23.2 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.
Household income
538 households (±96)
Linn, Missouri
Missouri share
Under $25k37%†200
Under $25k
37%±9.3 points
200 households±61 (90% margin of error)
16%in Missouri
15%in United States
+7.9 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$25k–50k20%†109
$25k–50k
20%±7.8 points
109 households±46 (90% margin of error)
20%in Missouri
17%in United States
−7.8 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$50k–75k21%†115
$50k–75k
21%±7.3 points
115 households±44 (90% margin of error)
17%in Missouri
16%in United States
−2.5 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$75k–100k7.4%†40
$75k–100k
7.4%±3.9 points
40 households±22 (90% margin of error)
13%in Missouri
13%in United States
−3.3 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$100k–150k9.5%†51
$100k–150k
9.5%±4.3 points
51 households±25 (90% margin of error)
17%in Missouri
18%in United States
+3.2 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$150k–200k2.2%†12
$150k–200k
2.2%±1.8 points
12 households±10 (90% margin of error)
8.2%in Missouri
9.6%in United States
+0.5 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$200k or more2.0%†11
$200k or more
2.0%±1.8 points
11 households±10 (90% margin of error)
8.7%in Missouri
13%in United States
+2.1 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
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.
The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Osage County, the county holding most of Linn's residents.
Osage County has 270 employer establishments, 201 for every 10,000 residents (0.81× the US rate of 248; 0.82× Missouri's), with 3,742 paid employees at an average annual pay of $43,188. The Census Bureau also counts 1,166 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.
Establishments
270
1,166 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
201
US 248 · Missouri 244
Paid employees
3,742
Average annual pay
$43,188
US $68,342
Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Osage County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation
County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)
Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 13,462 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.
No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.
