Wellston, MO

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Population
1,580
U.S. Census Population Estimates Program · 2025
Elevation
519 ft
Median Rent
$1,005/mo
U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-Year · 2024
Median Income
$44,957
U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-Year · 2024

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About Wellston

Wellston is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, along the northwest border of St. Louis. The 2020 census counted 1,537 residents. Wellston was incorporated as a city in 1909. Due to "government difficulties" the city was dissolved three years later, becoming an unincorporated place in Central Township, only to be reestablished as a city in 1949. The comprehensive high school of the district is Normandy High School, located in Wellston. Wellston's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Missouri setting. The local scoop is how Wellston's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Wellston includes a small piece is in the University. The comprehensive high school of that district is University.

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