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%

Webster Groves$2,820/mo

Typical home $445K (Zillow) · tax rate 1.30% · or rent about $1,650/mo · Housing →

Glendale$3,550/mo

Typical home $574K (Zillow) · tax rate 1.14% · Housing →

The difference: $740 a month, about $8,800 a year, between Glendale and Webster Groves.

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

Webster Groves and Glendale share a border

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

Webster GrovesGlendale

Webster Groves ↔ Glendale1.6 miles apart · They share a border

Who commutes between them

52 Glendale residents work in Webster Groves (2% of its workers)

Work & commute in Glendale →

Report cards

Glendale places higher on 14 of 19 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

A−Webster GrovesSafer than 75% of U.S. towns –GlendaleNot graded

Schools

AWebster GrovesBetter than 93% of districts in the state A+GlendaleBetter than 95% of districts in the state

Health

A+Webster GrovesHealthier than 95% of U.S. towns A+GlendaleHealthier than 99% of U.S. towns

4Webster Groves

14Glendale

Lists won, of 19 where both are ranked. Ties go to nobody.

Most conserved landOutdoors · 235 towns #76#231 Highest graduation rateSchools · 216 towns #75#1 Most trailsOutdoors · 151 towns #43#17 Closest to a top hospitalHealth · 261 towns #81#65 Most educatedPeople · 261 towns #15#1 Highest incomeIncome · 261 towns #20#7 HealthiestHealth · 261 towns #12#2 Most affordableCost of living · 260 towns #240#249

Left end = #1 in Missouri. Showing the lists where the towns are furthest apart. All of Webster Groves’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

Webster GrovesGlendale

Snow a year10″10″

Hazard risk (U.S. pctl)57th 48th

Outdoors & history

Webster GrovesGlendale

Trails4 mi 2 mi

Conserved land3.1%0.1%

National Register places12 2

Archive photos6 3

Famous people born here24 —

Community

Webster GrovesGlendale

Library hours a week66 hrs —

Colleges in town2 —

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

Webster GrovesGlendale

People

Population 23,712Highest 6,114Lowest

Growth since 20102010 → 2020 census +4.4%Highest MO: +2.8% +4.2%Lowest MO: +2.8%

Median age 40.3±1.1Highest 3% above MO 38.8±3.9Lowest about the MO average

Webster Groves and Glendale are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.

Kids under 18 22.6%±2.2Lowest MO: 22.3% 29.4%±5.4Highest MO: 22.3%

Glendale and Webster Groves are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.

Age 65+ 19.3%±1.9Highest MO: 17.9% 18.3%±4.8Lowest MO: 17.9%

Webster Groves and Glendale are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.

Bachelor’s degree+adults 25+ 68.8%Lowest MO: 32.4% 90.1%Highest MO: 32.4%

Enrolled in collegeshare of residents 9%±1.5Highest MO: 5.7% 4.1%±2.5Lowest MO: 5.7%

Cost of living

Household incomemedian $115,227±$7kLowest 63% above MO $170,700±$29kHighest 141% above MO

Home valuemedian, owner-occupied $387,600±$13kLowest 68% above MO $494,000±$37kHighest 115% above MO

Rentmedian gross, monthly $1,650±$354 60% above MO —

Property taxmedian, yearly $5,049Lowest 159% above MO $5,611Highest 188% above MO

Renters paying 30%+of income on rent 55.9%±5.1Highest MO: 45.6% 0%±53.1Lowest MO: 45.6%

Webster Groves and Glendale are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.

Below poverty line 4.2%Highest MO: 12.6% 2%Lowest MO: 12.6%

Housing

Homeownersof occupied homes 76.1%Lowest MO: 68.1% 96.1%Highest MO: 68.1%

Typical home builtmedian year 1952Highest 26 yrs older than MO 1951Lowest 27 yrs older than MO

Getting to work

Average commuteone way 19 minHighest 19% below MO 19 minLowest 20% below MO

Work from home 25.9%±4.7Lowest MO: 13% 35.1%±8.8Highest MO: 13%

Glendale and Webster Groves are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.

Work in townworking residents 7.3%Highest 1.6%Lowest

Typical commute distancemedian, straight-line 7.3 mi 7.3 mi

Jobs per working residentover 1.5 = a job hub 0.96Highest 0.28Lowest

Top workplaceoutside town St. Louis (23%)St. Louis (21%)

Between these townsresidents who work in the others Few work in Glendale2% work in Webster Groves

Outdoors

Conserved landshare of the town 3.1%Highest 0.1%Lowest

Trailsmapped miles 4.3 miHighest 1.7 miLowest

Trail densitymiles per sq mi 0.7 miLowest 1.3 miHighest

Parks & preservesnamed on the map 16Highest 0Lowest

Street connectivityintersections per sq mi, a walkability measure 149Lowest 150Highest

Schools

Public school scoresrank in state, math + reading #14 of 226 in MO #12 of 226 in MO

School district WEBSTER GROVESKIRKWOOD R-VII

High school in town Webster Groves HighNone in town

Students per teacherat that high school 14.1 —

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

Deciding?

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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.

Webster Groves vs Glendale

Two towns, two different strengths

Where they part ways

A typical home costs $740 more a month in Glendale

Webster Groves and Glendale share a border

Glendale places higher on 14 of 19 MO lists

What daily life feels like in each

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