Jennings makes Missouri’s top 10 on 2 lists
Jennings is ranked on 36 lists against the 256 Missouri towns with 2,500+ residents. It makes the top 10 on 2 and the top quarter on 5.
Jennings is on Missouri’s podium 2 times
Each list ranks every MO town with 2,500+ residents. Tap one to see the whole list with Jennings marked.
Jennings lands in the top half on 9 of 22 lists
Each dot is Jennings’s spot on one list: the left end is #1 in MO, the right end is last. Areas where Jennings does best come first.
Longer growing season than 93% of Missouri
Not better or worse, just Jennings’s character, from the lists where neither end is the “good” one. The most distinctive come first.
2 spots from the top 25 for walkable streets
Lists where Jennings sits just outside a milestone, and what it would take to get in.
Jennings out-ranks 1 of its 5 ranked neighbors
Head to head on the lists where both towns are ranked: a point for each list where one town places higher. Tap a town for its own rankings.
Where Jennings lands in every MO ranking
41 lists from Census, school, health, library, crime, climate and land data. Tap any list to see every town on it.
Outdoors
Most conserved land#1 Park Hills · 63%
#203
Most trails#1 Park Hills · 3.3 mi / sq mi
#3
Most walkable#1 Pine Lawn · 213 / sq mi
#27 Health
Healthiest#1 Ladue · 99 / 100
#255
Lowest obesity#1 Town and Country · 23%
#253
Fewest smokers#1 Town and Country · 7%
#251
Most active#1 Glendale · 16%
#255
Fewest uninsured#1 Ladue · 3%
#244
Lowest depression#1 Black Jack · 19%
#16
Closest to a top hospital#1 Branson · 0.0 mi
#50 Cost of living
Most affordable#1 Pine Lawn · 0.9 yrs
#3
Cheapest rent#1 Mountain View · $424/mo
#123
Lowest property tax#1 Mountain Grove · $438/yr
#112
Rent easiest to afford#1 De Soto · 20.3%
#84 Housing
Vacation-home towns#1 Osage Beach · 57.2%
#143
N
Most new homes#1 North Kansas City · 27.0 per 1,000
#75
Fastest-rising home prices#1 Versailles · +110.5%
#167
Housing hasn't kept up#1 Forsyth · 13.6 per home
Getting around
F Shortest commute#1 Fort Leonard Wood · 9 min #208
People
Most educated#1 Glendale · 90.1%
#242
F
Youngest#1 Fort Leonard Wood · 20.5
#157
Oldest#1 Osage Beach · 59.4
#98
Most residents 65+#1 Forsyth · 36.4%
#120
Most kids#1 Glasgow Village · 40%
#68 Climate
U Snowiest#1 Union · 29 in #31
Least snow#1 Salem · 1.3 in
#199
Mildest winters#1 Caruthersville · 29.5°
#66
Hottest summers#1 Carl Junction · 90.4°
#94
U
Coolest summers#1 Union · 85.4°
#133
Longest growing season#1 Caruthersville · 230 days
#20
Wettest#1 Kennett · 51 in
#160 Libraries
Most-used libraries#1 Richmond Heights · 16.6 per resident
N
Most library borrowing#1 North Kansas City · 30.2 per resident
N
Best libraries for kids#1 North Kansas City · 61.4 per child
Safety
Safest#1 Odessa · 4.4
The number on the right is Jennings’s spot. All of Missouri’s rankings, with the map → · National lists and other states: all rankings.
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- 2,500+ residents. Census estimates for smaller towns carry margins of error too wide to rank fairly, so they sit out every MO list.
- One town, one row. A city that is both a city and a town in Census data, or a village inside a town, is counted once.
- Ties share a rank. Towns on one weather station, one school district or one CDC estimate share a figure, so they share a spot (T).
- No “worst” lists. Lists rank toward the good end, and share cards are made only for the top half. Age, snow and the like are character, not grades.
U.S. Census Bureau (American Community Survey 5-year, 2010 and 2020 censuses, Building Permits Survey), U.S. Department of Education, FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, CDC PLACES, Medicare Care Compare, IMLS Public Libraries Survey, FHFA House Price Index, NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, USGS PAD-US and OpenStreetMap. Each list explains its own method.