Kansas City, MO

ZIP code 64132 is assigned to Kansas City, MO, and falls within Jackson County. Like every US postal code, it began as a mail-routing device rather than a geographic boundary — the US Postal Service groups delivery routes under a single code so carriers and sorting equipment can process mail efficiently. Today it also serves as a practical shorthand for the area itself: roughly 11,775 people live inside it.

At 1,093 residents per square mile spread over 10.771 square miles, 64132 reads as a suburban area. It is a mid-sized postal code by population, and density shapes almost everything else on this page — how people get to work, whether they own or rent, and what housing costs.

Household earnings are well below the national median. At $43,798, 64132 ranks among the lower-income postal codes, ahead of 9% of them. The US median for comparison is $70,109. Bear in mind that median income describes the midpoint household, not the average — it is not pulled upward by a handful of very high earners the way a mean would be.

Housing in 64132 costs well below the national median. A typical home is valued at $90,900 against a US median of $207,500, and median gross rent runs $1,094 a month. The split between owning and renting is fairly even at 47.3% owner-occupied, which tends to indicate a mix of housing types rather than one dominant form.

The building stock is dominated by detached single-family houses, which account for 81.8% of housing units here. The median construction year is 1955, making the housing here mid-century.

The population skews younger than the country as a whole, with a median age of 34.8 against 42 nationally. The average household holds 2.42 people, and 56.2% are family households.

Getting to work takes 22.9 minutes on average one way. The dominant mode is drove alone at 71.9% of workers.

Beyond addressing mail, 64132 does a lot of quiet administrative work. Retailers use it to calculate shipping and sales tax at checkout. Insurers use it to set premiums, since risk profiles vary geographically. Employers and marketers use it to define service areas. Government agencies use it to route benefits and organise reporting. If you have ever been asked for a postal code by a form that clearly does not intend to send you anything, this is why.

For anyone weighing a move, 64132 offers a compact profile of Kansas City: 11,775 residents, a median household income of $43,798, 10.7% of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher, and an unemployment rate of 11.1%. A handful of figures like these answer more relocation questions than most neighbourhood guides do.

One caution worth repeating: a postal code is not a neighbourhood. 64132 may cover parts of several distinct areas, and a single neighbourhood in Kansas City may be split across more than one code. Boundaries also shift as USPS adjusts delivery routes. Treat the figures here as describing a delivery area, which is what they actually measure.