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Place dossier plate
SheetMO-BLUE-SPRINGS-MO · Blue Springs, MO 59,416 pop · income 66th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Blue Springs
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Blue Springs on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Mayagüez zona… · lowest
17,092
Mayagüez zona… · lowest
17,092 median HH income
12.8% of the leader · rank #1
Sidney · near
84,073
Sidney · near
84,073 median HH income
63.0% of the leader · rank #2
Blue Springs · this city
84,075
Blue Springs · this city
84,075 median HH income
63.0% of the leader · rank #3
North Granvil… · near
84,076
North Granvil… · near
84,076 median HH income
63.0% of the leader · rank #4
Delhi · near
84,079
Delhi · near
84,079 median HH income
63.0% of the leader · rank #5
Pearl Beach · near
84,079
Pearl Beach · near
84,079 median HH income
63.0% of the leader · rank #6
Chesterfield · highest
133,380
Chesterfield · highest
133,380 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Blue Springs on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 59,416.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Blue Springs - the verdict
Blue Springs ranks in the 66th percentile for household income and the 20th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
66th
percentile, household income
54th
percentile, home value
7th
percentile, median rent
20th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Blue Springs, MO
Blue Springs is a small city in Missouri, home to 59,416 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Blue Springs households earn a median of $84,075 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.4%. Blue Springs's housing stock carries a median value of $241,500, and the median resident age is 36.7 years. About 34.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 67.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 224 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 46% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2684.3 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Missouri run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Missouri scores 90.8 (Well Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $972 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Missouri's average monthly utility costs around $219 (state average). Commute times here average 21.9 minutes, with 78.9% driving alone and 14.8% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. Natural-hazard exposure scores 50.6 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Blue Springs's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from housing and income to schools and households to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to reported crime to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Blue Springs, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Blue Springs?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
What does the education layer cover for Blue Springs?
The NCES join finds 16 public schools within the city match. 34.6% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
Which cities make useful reference points for Blue Springs?
Within Missouri, the closest population matches are St. Peters (58,200 residents, $89,827 income); Joplin (52,218 residents, $51,154 income); Florissant (51,915 residents, $66,344 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Des Plaines, IL (59,408 residents); Mayagüez zona urbana, PR (59,427 residents); North Miami, FL (59,429 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
What does the journey to work look like in Blue Springs?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 78.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.9 minutes.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Blue Springs?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2684.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 18% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
2448.6
Violent rate
235.7
Total reported rate
2684.3
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Blue Springs growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +2,866 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +4.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 224 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+4.9%
2025 estimate
61,632
2020 estimate
58,766
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 5.4% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
90.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Missouri average
C+
City profile score · Blue Springs, MO
63/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Cost of living A-
90.8 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Bachelor's+ share B-
34.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C+
$84,075
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C+
5.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime D
236 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Blue Springs profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 83/100 (A-) · 90.8 index
Bachelor's+ share: 66/100 (B-) · 34.6%
Household income: 63/100 (C+) · $84,075
Poverty rate: 63/100 (C+) · 5.4%
Violent crime: 42/100 (D) · 236 /100k
Where Blue Springs sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Blue Springs's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Blue Springs highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Blue Springs, MO (this city): home $241,500, crime 2,684/100k
Des Plaines, IL : home $318,200, crime 1,260/100k
Hanford, CA : home $323,600, crime 1,636/100k
Kokomo, IN : home $126,500, crime 1,902/100k
Santee, CA : home $653,400, crime 826/100k
St. Peters, MO : home $252,800, crime 1,265/100k
Joplin, MO : home $159,700, crime 4,681/100k
Florissant, MO : home $136,200, crime 2,174/100k
Chesterfield, MO : home $458,000, crime 1,382/100k
St. Charles, MO : home $280,800, crime 1,022/100k
St. Joseph, MO : home $144,200, crime 4,580/100k
How does Blue Springs compare to other US cities?
Blue Springs measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income66% higher than other cities
Home value54% pricier than other cities
Median rent7% pricier than other cities
Safety20% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Missouri and the picture shifts: Blue Springs ranks #174 of 234 Missouri cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Blue Springs against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Missouri only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Missouri-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Blue Springs near the bottom of Missouri's cities
Among the 875 Missouri cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Blue Springs ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Blue Springs only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#134 of 842
84th percentile in Missouri
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 875
0th percentile in Missouri
Median Home Value
#108 of 833
87th percentile in Missouri
Poverty Rate
#593 of 875
31st percentile in Missouri
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#123 of 875
86th percentile in Missouri
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Missouri only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
66th percentile nationally for median household income · 20th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Blue Springs's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Blue Springs's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Blue Springs's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$241,50046th percentilemore affordable than 46% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Blue Springs's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,975 of 15,516
More affordable than 61% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#99 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 2.9×, Blue Springs sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,975 of 15,516 and #99 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$84,075Blue Springs, MO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Blue Springs, MO median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Blue Springs, MO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)34.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)67.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
59,416
Median Income
$84,075
Median Home Value
$241,500
Median Age
36.7
Poverty Rate
5.4%
Labor force participation
67.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
34.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2684.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
235.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2448.6
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
16
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Blue Springs's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
58,766 residents
2021
59,475 residents
2022
59,462 residents
2023
60,520 residents
2024
61,246 residents
2025
61,632 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
224
housing units authorized
Single-Family
194
detached homes
Multifamily
30
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
417
142
275
$40.2M
2020
546
352
194
$52.1M
2021
272
177
95
$32.9M
2022
536
153
383
$57.6M
2023
161
123
38
$19.6M
2024
224
194
30
$24.0M
Permit volume decreased 46% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.9 minutes
Drive Alone
78.9%
Carpool
5.1%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
0.2%
Work from Home
14.8%
Other
0.8%
Based on 29,605 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Missouri statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $219
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Missouri at $219 (electricity about $105 , water and sewer about $42 ).
These are Missouri statewide averages, not a meter reading for Blue Springs. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Missouri's BEA cost-of-living index is 90.8 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Blue Springs is $972/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Missouri statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 50.6 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Missouri statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Blue Springs sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Blue Springs compares to similar-size Missouri cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.