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Place dossier plate
SheetMO-DES-PERES-MO · Des Peres, MO 9,145 pop · income 99th 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 Des Peres
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Des Peres on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Merrydale · lowest
41,986
Merrydale · lowest
41,986 median HH income
16.8% of the leader · rank #1
Neshanic Stat… · near
213,682
Neshanic Stat… · near
213,682 median HH income
85.5% of the leader · rank #2
Cove Neck · near
214,107
Cove Neck · near
214,107 median HH income
85.6% of the leader · rank #3
Des Peres · this city
214,167
Des Peres · this city
214,167 median HH income
85.7% of the leader · rank #4
Braddock · near
214,563
Braddock · near
214,563 median HH income
85.8% of the leader · rank #5
Governors Club · near
214,643
Governors Club · near
214,643 median HH income
85.9% of the leader · rank #6
Ladue · highest
250,001
Ladue · highest
250,001 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 Des Peres 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: 9,145.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Des Peres - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Des Peres lands in the 99th percentile for household income and the 6th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
99th
percentile, household income
89th
percentile, home value
7th
percentile, median rent
6th
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: Des Peres, MO
Missouri's Des Peres is a small town, with 9,145 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $214,167 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.2%. Typical homes in Des Peres are valued around $591,800, and the median resident age is 42.8 years. Educational attainment runs 80.5% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 63.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 8 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 27% from five years earlier. Des Peres's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 4310.9 incidents per 100,000 residents, above the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Missouri run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Missouri at 90.8 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Below Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $972 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $219 across Missouri, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 15.5 minutes, with 76.9% driving alone and 18.7% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 50.6 out of 100 (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Des Peres'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 population change to reported crime to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Des Peres, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, local building permits.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Des Peres?
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.
Within Missouri, the closest population matches are Chillicothe (9,129 residents, $51,231 income); Sunset Hills (9,113 residents, $133,895 income); Richmond Heights (9,179 residents, $90,670 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Hawthorn Woods, IL (9,145 residents); Aliquippa, PA (9,146 residents); Jessup, MD (9,147 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Des Peres?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 76.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 15.5 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Is Des Peres growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -27 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 8 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Des Peres?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 4310.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 89% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Des Peres?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.8×
Home value
$591,800
Household income
$214,167
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Top-decile income · poverty 1.2% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
90.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Missouri average
A+
City profile score · Des Peres, MO
91/100
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.
Household income A+
$214,167
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
80.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A+
1.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
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.
Violent crime B+
66 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Des Peres profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $214,167
Bachelor's+ share: 100/100 (A+) · 80.5%
Poverty rate: 91/100 (A+) · 1.2%
Cost of living: 83/100 (A-) · 90.8 index
Violent crime: 79/100 (B+) · 66 /100k
Where Des Peres sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Des Peres'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 - Des Peres highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Des Peres, MO (this city): home $591,800, crime 4,311/100k
Hawthorn Woods, IL : home $592,800, crime 137/100k
Chillicothe, MO : home $119,900, crime 1,096/100k
Sunset Hills, MO : home $522,300, crime 1,301/100k
Richmond Heights, MO : home $345,400, crime 7,778/100k
Clinton, MO : home $147,700, crime 2,815/100k
Ladue, MO : home $1,027,000, crime 893/100k
Warrenton, MO : home $193,100, crime 691/100k
How does Des Peres compare to other US cities?
Here's how Des Peres stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income99% higher than other cities
Home value89% pricier than other cities
Median rent7% pricier than other cities
Safety6% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Missouri alone, Des Peres ranks #205 of 234 Missouri cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Des Peres 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 Des Peres near the bottom of Missouri's cities
Among the 875 Missouri cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Des Peres ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Des Peres only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#7 of 842
99th percentile in Missouri
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 875
0th percentile in Missouri
Median Home Value
#10 of 833
99th percentile in Missouri
Poverty Rate
#773 of 875
11th percentile in Missouri
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#8 of 875
99th 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
99th percentile nationally for median household income · 6th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Des Peres's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Des Peres'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 Des Peres's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$591,80011th percentilemore affordable than 11% 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
Des Peres's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,378 of 15,516
More affordable than 65% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,683 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.8×, Des Peres sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,378 of 15,516 and #4,683 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$214,167Des Peres, MO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Des Peres, 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 Des Peres, MO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)80.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
9,145
Median Income
$214,167
Median Home Value
$591,800
Median Age
42.8
Poverty Rate
1.2%
Labor force participation
63.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
80.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
4310.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
66.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
4244.8
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.
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Des Peres's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
9,129 residents
2021
9,119 residents
2022
9,080 residents
2023
9,069 residents
2024
9,106 residents
2025
9,102 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
8
housing units authorized
Single-Family
8
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
11
11
0
$5.6M
2020
20
20
0
$9.8M
2021
18
18
0
$11.0M
2022
14
14
0
$8.4M
2023
16
16
0
$11.9M
2024
8
8
0
$7.6M
Permit volume decreased 27% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
15.5 minutes
Drive Alone
76.9%
Carpool
3.5%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
18.7%
Based on 4,315 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 Des Peres. 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 Des Peres 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 Des Peres sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Des Peres 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, 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.