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SheetMO-BRIARWOOD-ESTATES-MO · Briarwood Estates, MO 303 pop · income 85th 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 Briarwood Estates
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Briarwood Estates on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Elizabethtown · lowest
20,645
Elizabethtown · lowest
20,645 median HH income
18.1% of the leader · rank #1
Briarwood Est… · this city
113,750
Briarwood Est… · this city
113,750 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #2
Ballard · near
113,750
Ballard · near
113,750 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #3
Millville · near
113,750
Millville · near
113,750 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #4
Chestnut Ridge · near
113,750
Chestnut Ridge · near
113,750 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Pinopolis · near
113,750
Pinopolis · near
113,750 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
Hayward · highest
113,775
Hayward · highest
113,775 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Briarwood Estates on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 303.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Briarwood Estates lands in the 85th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
85th
percentile, household income
71st
percentile, home value
7th
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Briarwood Estates, MO
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 303 residents in Briarwood Estates, a small town within Missouri. The typical household in Briarwood Estates brings in $113,750 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 6.5%. Typical homes in Briarwood Estates are valued around $344,300, and the median resident age is 35.0 years. About 35.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 61.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Living costs in Missouri run below the national norm: the state registers 90.8 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Well Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $972 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Missouri run around $219, per EIA 2023 residential energy 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 Briarwood Estates'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Briarwood Estates, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Briarwood Estates?
Within Missouri, the closest population matches are Diggins (303 residents, $75,125 income); Amazonia (302 residents, $85,556 income); New Hampton (302 residents, $28,393 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Smithville, GA (303 residents); Woodland, GA (303 residents); Elizabethtown, IL (303 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Briarwood Estates?
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 68.2%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
How far does income reach against housing in Briarwood Estates?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.5%, 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.
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.
Household income A-
$113,750
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
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-
35.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C
6.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Briarwood Estates profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 83/100 (A-) · $113,750
Cost of living: 83/100 (A-) · 90.8 index
Bachelor's+ share: 67/100 (B-) · 35.1%
Poverty rate: 56/100 (C) · 6.5%
How does Briarwood Estates compare to other US cities?
Briarwood Estates measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income85% higher than other cities
Home value71% pricier than other cities
Median rent7% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Briarwood Estates 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 Briarwood Estates near the bottom of Missouri's cities
Among the 875 Missouri cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Briarwood Estates ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Briarwood Estates only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#50 of 842
94th percentile in Missouri
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 875
0th percentile in Missouri
Median Home Value
#49 of 833
94th percentile in Missouri
Poverty Rate
#559 of 875
36th percentile in Missouri
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#119 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
85th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Briarwood Estates's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$344,30029th percentilemore affordable than 29% 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
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#6,840 of 15,516
More affordable than 56% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,762 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.0×, Briarwood Estates sits in the moderate band:
national rank #6,840 of 15,516 and #5,762 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
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
$113,750Briarwood Estates, MO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Briarwood Estates, 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 Briarwood Estates, MO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)35.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
303
Median Income
$113,750
Median Home Value
$344,300
Median Age
35.0
Poverty Rate
6.5%
Labor force participation
61.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
35.1%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
68.2%
Carpool
11.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
10.3%
Work from Home
10.3%
Based on 107 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 Briarwood Estates. 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 Briarwood Estates 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 Briarwood Estates sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Briarwood Estates 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, 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.