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SheetMO-FREDERICKTOWN-MO · Fredericktown, MO 4,464 pop · income 25th pct · 4 tracts
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 Fredericktown
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Fredericktown on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Honesdale · lowest
38,469
Honesdale · lowest
38,469 median HH income
36.7% of the leader · rank #1
Los Alamos · near
53,673
Los Alamos · near
53,673 median HH income
51.2% of the leader · rank #2
Deer Lodge · near
53,676
Deer Lodge · near
53,676 median HH income
51.2% of the leader · rank #3
Myrtle Beach · near
53,679
Myrtle Beach · near
53,679 median HH income
51.2% of the leader · rank #4
Fredericktown · this city
53,681
Fredericktown · this city
53,681 median HH income
51.2% of the leader · rank #5
Osakis · near
53,684
Osakis · near
53,684 median HH income
51.2% of the leader · rank #6
Peotone · highest
104,792
Peotone · highest
104,792 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 Fredericktown 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: 4,464.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Fredericktown - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Fredericktown places in the 25th percentile for household income and the 18th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
25th
percentile, household income
17th
percentile, home value
7th
percentile, median rent
18th
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: Fredericktown, MO
Fredericktown is a small town in Missouri, home to 4,464 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Fredericktown report a median income of $53,681 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 10.0%. Typical homes in Fredericktown are valued around $120,200, and the median resident age is 36.4 years. Educational attainment runs 18.0% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 52.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 0 residential units authorized here in 2024 (No Permits), down 100% from five years earlier. Fredericktown's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 2793.1 crimes per 100,000 residents, above the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 54.5°F with 46.3 inches of precipitation per year and 9.3 inches of snowfall.
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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $972 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Missouri run around $219, per EIA 2023 residential energy 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 Fredericktown'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 schools and households to climate and hazard context to within-city variation to comparison shortlist to housing and income to reported crime to work and mobility to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Fredericktown, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Fredericktown?
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 18.0% 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 physical conditions frame life in Fredericktown?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 54.5°F, with 46.3 inches of precipitation and 9.3 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Missouri is 50.6 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
What can 4 Census tracts reveal inside Fredericktown?
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
Which cities make useful reference points for Fredericktown?
Within Missouri, the closest population matches are Eldon (4,486 residents, $39,202 income); Mountain Grove (4,494 residents, $41,875 income); Rogersville (4,496 residents, $51,375 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Wahneta, FL (4,464 residents); Lee Acres, NM (4,463 residents); Shallotte, NC (4,465 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.
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 Fredericktown?
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 10.0%, 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
$53,681
Home value
$120,200
Value / income
2.2×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Fredericktown?
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 2793.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 22% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
2595.1
Violent rate
197.9
Total reported rate
2793.1
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Fredericktown?
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 72.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
1.9%
Work from home
7.1%
Drive alone
72.6%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 1,909 workers age 16+.
Is Fredericktown 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 +151 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 0 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
+3.4%
2025 estimate
4,584
2020 estimate
4,433
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Below median income · poverty 10.0% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
90.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Missouri average
D
City profile score · Fredericktown, MO
45/100
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.
Violent crime D
198 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate D
10.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
18.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$53,681
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Fredericktown profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 83/100 (A-) · 90.8 index
Violent crime: 48/100 (D) · 198 /100k
Poverty rate: 40/100 (D) · 10.0%
Bachelor's+ share: 28/100 (F) · 18.0%
Household income: 25/100 (F) · $53,681
Where Fredericktown sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Fredericktown'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 - Fredericktown highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Fredericktown, MO (this city): home $120,200, crime 2,793/100k
Shallotte, NC : home $301,300, crime 4,524/100k
Honesdale, PA : home $180,600, crime 971/100k
Peotone, IL : home $261,400, crime 429/100k
Eldon, MO : home $116,900, crime 708/100k
Mountain Grove, MO : home $89,300, crime 1,807/100k
Rogersville, MO : home $205,900, crime 989/100k
Mount Vernon, MO : home $175,000, crime 1,829/100k
How does Fredericktown compare to other US cities?
Where Fredericktown sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income25% higher than other cities
Home value17% pricier than other cities
Median rent7% pricier than other cities
Safety18% 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, Fredericktown ranks #179 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 Fredericktown 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 Fredericktown near the bottom of Missouri's cities
Among the 875 Missouri cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Fredericktown ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Fredericktown only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#406 of 842
52nd percentile in Missouri
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 875
0th percentile in Missouri
Median Home Value
#417 of 833
50th percentile in Missouri
Poverty Rate
#441 of 875
49th percentile in Missouri
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#356 of 875
59th 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
25th percentile nationally for median household income · 18th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Fredericktown's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Fredericktown'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 Fredericktown's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$120,200Among the most affordablemore affordable than 83% 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
Fredericktown's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#2,657 of 15,516
More affordable than 83% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,475 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.2×, Fredericktown sits in the affordable band:
national rank #2,657 of 15,516 and #2,475 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
$53,681Fredericktown, MO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Fredericktown, 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 Fredericktown, MO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)18.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)10.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)52.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
4,464
Median Income
$53,681
Median Home Value
$120,200
Median Age
36.4
Poverty Rate
10.0%
Labor force participation
52.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
18.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2793.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
197.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2595.1
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
54.5°F
Annual Precipitation
46.3"
Annual Snowfall
9.3"
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Fredericktown's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
4,433 residents
2021
4,459 residents
2022
4,543 residents
2023
4,532 residents
2024
4,583 residents
2025
4,584 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
Total Permits (2024)
0
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
15
3
12
$0.8M
2020
10
2
8
$0.6M
2021
41
1
40
$7.7M
2022
2
2
0
$0.4M
2023
9
1
8
$1.1M
2024
0
0
0
-
Permit volume decreased 100% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
72.6%
Carpool
16.3%
Public Transit
1.9%
Walk
1.5%
Work from Home
7.1%
Other
0.6%
Based on 1,909 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 Fredericktown. 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 Fredericktown 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 Fredericktown sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Fredericktown 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.