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SheetMO-EXCELSIOR-SPRINGS-MO · Excelsior Springs, MO 10,502 pop · income 55th 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 Excelsior Springs
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Excelsior Springs on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Bolivar · lowest
44,603
Bolivar · lowest
44,603 median HH income
23.2% of the leader · rank #1
Gibsonton · near
74,049
Gibsonton · near
74,049 median HH income
38.5% of the leader · rank #2
Pierre · near
74,053
Pierre · near
74,053 median HH income
38.5% of the leader · rank #3
Excelsior Spr… · this city
74,056
Excelsior Spr… · this city
74,056 median HH income
38.5% of the leader · rank #4
Macungie · near
74,056
Macungie · near
74,056 median HH income
38.5% of the leader · rank #5
Macon · near
74,063
Macon · near
74,063 median HH income
38.5% of the leader · rank #6
Malibu · highest
192,159
Malibu · highest
192,159 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 Excelsior 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: 10,502.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Excelsior Springs - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Excelsior Springs lands in the 55th percentile for household income and the 19th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
55th
percentile, household income
35th
percentile, home value
7th
percentile, median rent
19th
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: Excelsior Springs, MO
10,502 people live in Excelsior Springs, Missouri - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Excelsior Springs report a median income of $74,056 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.2%. Home values in Excelsior Springs run a median of $174,000, and the median resident age is 35.7 years. About 16.3% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 63.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 59 residential building permits were authorized in Excelsior Springs (Building Boom), up 321% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 2721.0 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, near the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures 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. Monthly utility costs average around $219 across Missouri, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 21.1 minutes, with 78.0% driving alone and 7.4% 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 Excelsior 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 population change to comparison shortlist to schools and households to reported crime to housing and income to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Excelsior Springs, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, matched public-school count, 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.
1. Population change
Is Excelsior 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 +242 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 59 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Excelsior Springs?
Within Missouri, the closest population matches are Smithville (10,552 residents, $99,925 income); Maryville (10,556 residents, $48,099 income); Bellefontaine Neighbors (10,562 residents, $48,354 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Plymouth, IN (10,506 residents); Beverly Hills, MI (10,507 residents); Forest Acres, SC (10,491 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 education layer cover for Excelsior Springs?
The NCES join finds 7 public schools within the city match. 16.3% 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Excelsior 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 2721.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 19% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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 Excelsior Springs?
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.2%, 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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
Household income
$74,056
Home value
$174,000
Value / income
2.3×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Excelsior 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 78.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.1 minutes.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
7.4%
Drive alone
78.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 5,226 workers age 16+.
Above median income · poverty 9.2% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
90.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Missouri average
D
City profile score · Excelsior Springs, MO
48/100
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.
Household income C-
$74,056
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate D
9.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
330 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
16.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Excelsior Springs profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 83/100 (A-) · 90.8 index
Household income: 54/100 (C-) · $74,056
Poverty rate: 43/100 (D) · 9.2%
Violent crime: 29/100 (F) · 330 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 24/100 (F) · 16.3%
Where Excelsior Springs sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Excelsior 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 - Excelsior Springs highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Excelsior Springs, MO (this city): home $174,000, crime 2,721/100k
Beverly Hills, MI : home $488,800, crime 542/100k
Forest Acres, SC : home $260,500, crime 3,696/100k
Reading, OH : home $184,200, crime 2,285/100k
Riverdale, IL : home $104,800, crime 3,567/100k
Malibu, CA : home $2,000,000+, crime 4,260/100k
Smithville, MO : home $272,500, crime 891/100k
Maryville, MO : home $178,900, crime 1,910/100k
Bellefontaine Neighbors, MO : home $92,500, crime 3,693/100k
Kearney, MO : home $275,200, crime 825/100k
Kennett, MO : home $103,600, crime 4,552/100k
Bolivar, MO : home $188,700, crime 1,198/100k
How does Excelsior Springs compare to other US cities?
Here's how Excelsior Springs stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income55% higher than other cities
Home value35% pricier than other cities
Median rent7% pricier than other cities
Safety19% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Missouri, Excelsior Springs ranks #177 of 234 Missouri cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Excelsior 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 Excelsior Springs near the bottom of Missouri's cities
Among the 875 Missouri cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Excelsior Springs ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Excelsior Springs only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#185 of 842
78th percentile in Missouri
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 875
0th percentile in Missouri
Median Home Value
#237 of 833
72nd percentile in Missouri
Poverty Rate
#477 of 875
45th percentile in Missouri
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#415 of 875
52nd 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
55th percentile nationally for median household income · 19th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Excelsior Springs's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Excelsior 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 Excelsior Springs's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$174,000Among the most affordablemore affordable than 65% 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
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#3,215 of 15,516
More affordable than 79% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#243 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.3×, Excelsior Springs sits in the affordable band:
national rank #3,215 of 15,516 and #243 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$74,056Excelsior Springs, MO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Excelsior 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 Excelsior Springs, MO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)16.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.2%
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
10,502
Median Income
$74,056
Median Home Value
$174,000
Median Age
35.7
Poverty Rate
9.2%
Labor force participation
63.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
16.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2721.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
329.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2391.5
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
7
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Excelsior Springs's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
10,577 residents
2021
10,605 residents
2022
10,583 residents
2023
10,619 residents
2024
10,698 residents
2025
10,819 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
59
housing units authorized
Single-Family
19
detached homes
Multifamily
40
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
14
14
0
$3.2M
2020
24
24
0
$4.4M
2021
19
19
0
$5.1M
2022
23
23
0
$4.9M
2023
12
12
0
$3.3M
2024
59
19
40
$10.5M
Permit volume increased 321% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.1 minutes
Drive Alone
78.0%
Carpool
9.9%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.4%
Work from Home
7.4%
Other
2.3%
Based on 5,226 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 Excelsior 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 Excelsior 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 Excelsior Springs sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Excelsior 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.