St. Joseph ranks #27 in Missouri for trails
St. Joseph is ranked on 40 lists against the 256 Missouri towns with 2,500+ residents. It makes the top 10 on 0 and the top quarter on 4.
More snow than 99% of Missouri
Not better or worse, just St. Joseph’s character, from the lists where neither end is the “good” one. The most distinctive come first.
The lists St. Joseph does best on
Each list ranks every MO town with 2,500+ residents. Tap one to see the whole list with St. Joseph marked.
St. Joseph lands in the top half on 10 of 26 lists
Each dot is St. Joseph’s spot on one list: the left end is #1 in MO, the right end is last. Areas where St. Joseph does best come first.
2 spots from the top 25 for trails
Lists where St. Joseph sits just outside a milestone, and what it would take to get in.
St. Joseph out-ranks 0 of its 1 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 St. Joseph 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.
Getting around
F Shortest commute#1 Fort Leonard Wood · 9 min #37Outdoors
Most conserved land#1 Park Hills · 63%
#57
Most trails#1 Park Hills · 3.3 mi / sq mi
#27
Most walkable#1 Pine Lawn · 213 / sq mi
#111 Health
Healthiest#1 Ladue · 99 / 100
#180
Lowest obesity#1 Town and Country · 23%
#223
Fewest smokers#1 Town and Country · 7%
#150
Most active#1 Glendale · 16%
#152
Fewest uninsured#1 Ladue · 3%
#174
Lowest depression#1 Black Jack · 19%
#92
Closest to a top hospital#1 Branson · 0.0 mi
#35 Cost of living
Most affordable#1 Pine Lawn · 0.9 yrs
#94
Cheapest rent#1 Mountain View · $424/mo
#109
Lowest property tax#1 Mountain Grove · $438/yr
#86
Rent easiest to afford#1 De Soto · 20.3%
#73 People
Most educated#1 Glendale · 90.1%
#120
F
Youngest#1 Fort Leonard Wood · 20.5
#123
Oldest#1 Osage Beach · 59.4
#132
Most residents 65+#1 Forsyth · 36.4%
#140
Most kids#1 Glasgow Village · 40%
#150 
Libraries
Most-used libraries#1 Richmond Heights · 16.6 per resident
#39
N
Most library borrowing#1 North Kansas City · 30.2 per resident
#38
N
Best libraries for kids#1 North Kansas City · 61.4 per child
#39 Housing
Vacation-home towns#1 Osage Beach · 57.2%
#83
N
Most new homes#1 North Kansas City · 27.0 per 1,000
#161
Fastest-rising home prices#1 Versailles · +110.5%
#85
Housing hasn't kept up#1 Forsyth · 13.6 per home
Safety
Safest#1 Odessa · 4.4
#135 
The number on the right is St. Joseph’s spot. All of Missouri’s rankings, with the map → · National lists and other states: all rankings.
Do the numbers ring true?
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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.