A typical home in each town, bought with 20% down at 6.3% for 30 years, plus property tax at the town’s own rate and insurance. Change the numbers to fit you.

Down paymentRate%

Sunset Hills$3,790/mo

Typical home $628K (Zillow) · tax rate 0.96% · Housing →

Sappington$2,230/mo

Typical home $362K (Zillow) · tax rate 1.10% · or rent about $1,241/mo · Housing →

The difference: $1,570 a month, about $18,800 a year, between Sunset Hills and Sappington.

Estimates, not a quote: your price, rate, tax bill and insurance will differ. Tax rate = the Census median tax bill over the median home value.

Where they are

Sunset Hills and Sappington share a border

And the people who already live in one and work in the other.

Sunset HillsSappington

Sunset Hills ↔ Sappington2.0 miles apart · They share a border

Who commutes between them

96 Sappington residents work in Sunset Hills (2.6% of its workers)

91 Sunset Hills residents work in Sappington (2.4% of its workers)

Work & commute in Sappington →

Report cards

Sunset Hills places higher on 11 of 17 MO lists

Our letter grades for safety, schools and health, then every Missouri ranking list both towns are on. A grade is one measure; read the page behind it.

Safety

B−Sunset HillsSafer than 54% of U.S. towns –SappingtonNot graded

Schools

A−Sunset HillsBetter than 84% of districts in the state A−SappingtonBetter than 84% of districts in the state

Health

ASunset HillsHealthier than 88% of U.S. towns A−SappingtonHealthier than 85% of U.S. towns

11Sunset Hills

5Sappington

Lists won, of 17 where both are ranked. Ties go to nobody.

Most walkableOutdoors · 261 towns #150#26 Best schoolsSchools · 226 towns #137#32 Highest incomeIncome · 261 towns #12#75 Closest to a top hospitalHealth · 261 towns #46#82 Most affordableCost of living · 260 towns #251#219 Lowest property taxCost of living · 259 towns #245#217 Fastest growingGrowth · 260 towns #60#85 Lowest depressionHealth · 261 towns #7#28

Left end = #1 in Missouri. Showing the lists where the towns are furthest apart. All of Sunset Hills’s rankings →

Life in each

What daily life feels like in each

The weather, the land, the history and the people, row by row. None of it is a grade: more snow is a plus to a skier.

Seasons

Sunset HillsSappington

Snow a year10″10″

Hazard risk (U.S. pctl)50th 45th

Outdoors & history

Sunset HillsSappington

Trails23 mi —

Conserved land4.9%—

National Register places3 1

Archive photos6 4

Famous people born here—1

Community

Sunset HillsSappington

Posts this month0 0

Neighbors joined0 1

A dot marks the most on each row. Climate: NOAA 1991–2020 normals at the nearest station. Hazard risk: FEMA National Risk Index, expected yearly damage vs U.S. towns.

Everything, side by side

What matters to you?

Pick a few. Those rows jump to the top and the best fit on each is marked. There’s no overall score: what matters is up to you.

Only big differences vs Missouri average

Sunset HillsSappington

People

Population 9,112Highest 7,367Lowest

Growth since 20102010 → 2020 census +8.3%Highest MO: +2.8% +5.5%Lowest MO: +2.8%

Median age 51.1±3.9Highest 31% above MO 41.9±4.9Lowest 7% above MO

Kids under 18 20.1%±3.4Lowest MO: 22.3% 22.4%±3.4Highest MO: 22.3%

Sappington and Sunset Hills are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.

Age 65+ 29.2%±3.4Highest MO: 17.9% 24.5%±3.2Lowest MO: 17.9%

Sunset Hills and Sappington are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.

Bachelor’s degree+adults 25+ 62.4%Highest MO: 32.4% 46.4%Lowest MO: 32.4%

Enrolled in collegeshare of residents 5.4%±2.5Highest MO: 5.7% 4.7%±1.8Lowest MO: 5.7%

Sunset Hills and Sappington are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.

Cost of living

Household incomemedian $138,144±$31kHighest 95% above MO $77,650±$6kLowest 10% above MO

Home valuemedian, owner-occupied $523,800±$47kHighest 127% above MO $297,600±$22kLowest 29% above MO

Rentmedian gross, monthly — $1,241±$223 20% above MO

Property taxmedian, yearly $5,031Highest 158% above MO $3,270Lowest 68% above MO

Renters paying 30%+of income on rent 81.2%±22.9Highest MO: 45.6% 48.8%±15.6Lowest MO: 45.6%

Sunset Hills and Sappington are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.

Below poverty line 3.7%Lowest MO: 12.6% 3.9%Highest MO: 12.6%

Housing

Homeownersof occupied homes 82.9%Highest MO: 68.1% 74.5%Lowest MO: 68.1%

Typical home builtmedian year 1979Highest 1 yr newer than MO 1966Lowest 12 yrs older than MO

Getting to work

Average commuteone way 21 minHighest 9% below MO 21 minLowest 11% below MO

Work from home 18.3%±3.9Highest MO: 13% 15.8%±4.8Lowest MO: 13%

Sunset Hills and Sappington are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.

Work in townworking residents 5.1%Highest 2.6%Lowest

Typical commute distancemedian, straight-line 9.8 miHighest 9.3 miLowest

Jobs per working residentover 1.5 = a job hub 2.81Highest 1.49Lowest

Top workplaceoutside town St. Louis (21%)St. Louis (21%)

Between these townsresidents who work in the others 2% work in Sappington3% work in Sunset Hills

Outdoors

Conserved landshare of the town 4.9%Highest 0%Lowest

Trailsmapped miles 22.8 miHighest 0.0 miLowest

Trail densitymiles per sq mi 2.5 miHighest 0.0 miLowest

Parks & preservesnamed on the map 7Highest 0Lowest

Street connectivityintersections per sq mi, a walkability measure 58.9Lowest 122Highest

Schools

Public school scoresrank in state, math + reading #137 of 226 in MO #32 of 226 in MO

School district LINDBERGH SCHOOLS · SPECL. SCH. DST. ST. LOUIS CO.LINDBERGH SCHOOLS

High school in town South TechnicalLindbergh SR. High

Students per teacherat that high school 25.1Highest 17.7Lowest

Missouri average“±” Census margin of errorACS 2020–2024

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2010 & 2020 censuses, LEHD commute flows; Zillow Home Value Index; NCES Common Core of Data; FBI crime reporting; CDC PLACES; FEMA National Risk Index; NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020; USGS PAD-US and OpenStreetMap. “±” is the Census margin of error; differences inside it are never called. Property tax is top-coded by the Census at $10,000+. There is no overall score: which town is better depends on what matters to you.

Sunset Hills vs Sappington

Two towns, two different strengths

Where they part ways

A typical home costs $1,570 more a month in Sunset Hills

Sunset Hills and Sappington share a border

Sunset Hills places higher on 11 of 17 MO lists

What daily life feels like in each

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