Webster Groves makes Missouri’s top 10 on 5 lists
Webster Groves is ranked on 40 lists against the 256 Missouri towns with 2,500+ residents. It makes the top 10 on 5 and the top quarter on 14.
Longer growing season than 96% of Missouri
Not better or worse, just Webster Groves’s character, from the lists where neither end is the “good” one. The most distinctive come first.
The lists Webster Groves does best on
Each list ranks every MO town with 2,500+ residents. Tap one to see the whole list with Webster Groves marked.
1 spot from the top 10 for walkable streets
Lists where Webster Groves sits just outside a milestone, and what it would take to get in.
Webster Groves lands in the top half on 21 of 26 lists
Each dot is Webster Groves’s spot on one list: the left end is #1 in MO, the right end is last. Areas where Webster Groves does best come first.
Webster Groves out-ranks 4 of its 6 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 Webster Groves 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.
Health
Healthiest#1 Ladue · 99 / 100
#11
Lowest obesity#1 Town and Country · 23%
#12
Fewest smokers#1 Town and Country · 7%
#7
Most active#1 Glendale · 16%
#10
Fewest uninsured#1 Ladue · 3%
#10
Lowest depression#1 Black Jack · 19%
#28
Closest to a top hospital#1 Branson · 0.0 mi
#79 People
Most educated#1 Glendale · 90.1%
#15
F
Youngest#1 Fort Leonard Wood · 20.5
#172
Oldest#1 Osage Beach · 59.4
#85
Most residents 65+#1 Forsyth · 36.4%
#92
Most kids#1 Glasgow Village · 40%
#141 Safety
Safest#1 Odessa · 4.4
#12 Outdoors
Most conserved land#1 Park Hills · 63%
#75
Most trails#1 Park Hills · 3.3 mi / sq mi
#43
Most walkable#1 Pine Lawn · 213 / sq mi
#11 Libraries
Most-used libraries#1 Richmond Heights · 16.6 per resident
#15
N
Most library borrowing#1 North Kansas City · 30.2 per resident
#6
N
Best libraries for kids#1 North Kansas City · 61.4 per child
#11 
Getting around
F Shortest commute#1 Fort Leonard Wood · 9 min #66
Housing
Vacation-home towns#1 Osage Beach · 57.2%
#105
N
Most new homes#1 North Kansas City · 27.0 per 1,000
#162
Fastest-rising home prices#1 Versailles · +110.5%
#189
Housing hasn't kept up#1 Forsyth · 13.6 per home
#23 
The number on the right is Webster Groves’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.