Toilet Repair in Missouri

Weighted across 600,504 occupied homes. Separately, 62% of the state’s 665,092 housing units — a wider universe, because it includes vacant ones — were built before 1990, which is before the Energy Policy Act of 1992 set a 1.6 gallon flush maximum.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, tables B25003 (tenure) and B25034 (year structure built), 2023 release. Flush volumes: US EPA WaterSense, tank-type toilet supporting statement.

A state average hides the thing that matters. Of the 78 towns we route in here, 4 are mostly pre-1990 housing and 23 are mostly post-1990 housing; on tenure, 37 are strongly owner-occupied and 2 are renter-heavy.

The two are close to independent of each other, so an old town is not reliably an owning town or a renting one. That is why every town page below carries its own pair of figures rather than inheriting these.

The fault list does not vary by state. A running tank is the flapper or the fill valve, and EPA publishes a ten-minute test that tells them apart. Water at the base is four different faults, one of which is condensation and not a leak at all. A fixture that rocks is the one that causes the seal failure you will meet later.

What varies by town is who fixes it. In a rented home the toilet is normally the landlord’s repair, and in the towns above that is a large share of households.

Checking a credential in Missouri

Missouri has no state plumbing board. Section 341.010 of the Revised Statutes requires a certificate for plumbers working in cities or towns of fifteen thousand or more inhabitants, and the chapter elsewhere recognizes licenses issued by any county or city operating under plumbing rules, so the office that issued one is a local office. Start here. Ask the contractor which municipality licenses them and confirm it with that office before work begins.

• Alba 59% owner-occupied · 76% pre-1990
• Ash Grove 84% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Aurora 72% owner-occupied · 66% pre-1990
• Benton 74% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Billings 90% owner-occupied · 50% pre-1990
• Blue Eye 84% owner-occupied · 38% pre-1990
• Bois D'Arc 73% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Branson 57% owner-occupied · 29% pre-1990
• Brookline 76% owner-occupied · 33% pre-1990
• Cape Fair 93% owner-occupied · 37% pre-1990
• Cape Girardeau 56% owner-occupied · 68% pre-1990
• Carl Junction 78% owner-occupied · 36% pre-1990
• Carterville 76% owner-occupied · 79% pre-1990
• Carthage 65% owner-occupied · 61% pre-1990
• Cedarcreek 68% owner-occupied · 68% pre-1990
• Chadwick 87% owner-occupied · 71% pre-1990
• Chaffee 76% owner-occupied · 70% pre-1990
• Chestnutridge 92% owner-occupied · 27% pre-1990
• Clever 81% owner-occupied · 22% pre-1990
• Crane 75% owner-occupied · 53% pre-1990
• Diamond 77% owner-occupied · 45% pre-1990
• Duenweg 63% owner-occupied · 61% pre-1990
• Fair Grove 85% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Fairview 78% owner-occupied · 61% pre-1990
• Forsyth 76% owner-occupied · 60% pre-1990
• Friedheim 100% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• Galena 84% owner-occupied · 61% pre-1990
• Granby 82% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• Highlandville 87% owner-occupied · 52% pre-1990
• Hollister 74% owner-occupied · 40% pre-1990
• Jackson 78% owner-occupied · 45% pre-1990
• Jasper 82% owner-occupied · 68% pre-1990
• Joplin 63% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• Kansas City 57% owner-occupied · 73% pre-1990
• Kimberling City 83% owner-occupied · 49% pre-1990
• Kirbyville 66% owner-occupied · 30% pre-1990
• Kissee Mills 92% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• Lampe 93% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• Marionville 67% owner-occupied · 65% pre-1990
• Miller 75% owner-occupied · 60% pre-1990
• Millersville 92% owner-occupied · 37% pre-1990
• Morley 83% owner-occupied · 82% pre-1990
• Mount Vernon 74% owner-occupied · 53% pre-1990
• Neosho 67% owner-occupied · 60% pre-1990
• Nixa 72% owner-occupied · 28% pre-1990
• Oak Ridge 93% owner-occupied · 52% pre-1990
• Oran 71% owner-occupied · 76% pre-1990
• Oronogo 84% owner-occupied · 28% pre-1990
• Ozark 75% owner-occupied · 28% pre-1990
• Pierce City 71% owner-occupied · 58% pre-1990
• Platte City 69% owner-occupied · 37% pre-1990
• Racine 100% owner-occupied · 45% pre-1990
• Reeds 80% owner-occupied · 48% pre-1990
• Reeds Spring 80% owner-occupied · 33% pre-1990
• Republic 68% owner-occupied · 43% pre-1990
• Ridgedale 87% owner-occupied · 29% pre-1990
• Riverside 45% owner-occupied · 68% pre-1990
• Rockaway Beach 77% owner-occupied · 47% pre-1990
• Rogersville 72% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
• Sarcoxie 75% owner-occupied · 65% pre-1990
• Scott City 73% owner-occupied · 71% pre-1990
• Seneca 81% owner-occupied · 63% pre-1990
• Sikeston 65% owner-occupied · 73% pre-1990
• Sparta 81% owner-occupied · 39% pre-1990
• Spokane 100% owner-occupied · 26% pre-1990
• Springfield 52% owner-occupied · 63% pre-1990
• Stark City 91% owner-occupied · 50% pre-1990
• Stella 90% owner-occupied · 54% pre-1990
• Stotts City 91% owner-occupied · 48% pre-1990
• Strafford 87% owner-occupied · 49% pre-1990
• Taneyville 92% owner-occupied · 61% pre-1990
• Verona 89% owner-occupied · 54% pre-1990
• Walnut Grove 86% owner-occupied · 58% pre-1990
• Walnut Shade 92% owner-occupied · 43% pre-1990
• Webb City 66% owner-occupied · 48% pre-1990
• Wentworth 99% owner-occupied · 52% pre-1990
• Whitewater 99% owner-occupied · 46% pre-1990
• Willard 72% owner-occupied · 46% pre-1990