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Cost of living in Wildwood, Missouri

Wildwood, Missouri has about 35,133 people. Typical rent is $1,661 a month, including utilities, and a typical household earns $161,060 a year. Both figures are Census 2020–2024 medians, not a listing or your pay. This site does not approve or deny benefits. A missing figure stays blank. We do not guess it.

Ranked #48 in Missouri on the 2026 Most Affordable Towns Index.

Simple answer

Typical rent is $1,661 a month.

Wildwood is a city in Missouri. That rent number includes utilities. A typical household earns $161,060 a year.

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People
35,133
Census average, 2020–2024
Typical rent
$1,661
Median gross rent, includes utilities
Typical pay
$161,060
Median household income, yearly
Typical home
$495,800
Median home value
2-bedroom fair rent
$1,349
St. Louis, MO-IL HUD Metro FMR Area

Wildwood, Missouri has about 35,133 people. That count is a 2020–2024 Census average, not a headcount from one day.

A typical home is worth about $495,800.

HUD's fair-market rent for a 2-bedroom in St. Louis County is $1,349 a month. That is the county number, not an apartment listing in Wildwood. It runs from October 2026 through September 2027.

In the St. Louis, MO-IL metro area, prices sit at 95.1 when the U.S. average is 100. That is a 2024 BEA index.

Missouri taxes wages. A typical combined sales tax is 8.4% as of January 1, 2026. That mix is statewide, not Wildwood's exact store tax.

Some places in Missouri add a local wage tax. In 2023 the state average was about 0.18% of income. That is not a Wildwood bill.

In July 2026, a typical Missouri home paid 16.09¢ per kilowatt-hour. That is a state average from EIA, not Wildwood's bill.

EIA did not publish a 2025 all-grades gas price for Missouri in the table we use.

Among 350 places we list in Missouri with a rent figure, 11 have higher typical rent than Wildwood.

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USDA has a live map of stores that take SNAP. We did not copy that store list here. The downloadable file is a history file for 2005 through 2025, so the live map is the one to use.

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Locator page updated 2026-09-11. Last checked 2026-10-16.

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Bigger places in Missouri

Census 2020-2024. HUD rents for October 2026–September 2027. BEA prices for 2024. Taxes as of January 1, 2026. Checked 2026-10-16. 15,000 places are in this guide.