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Place dossier plate
SheetMO-LAKE-LOTAWANA-MO · Lake Lotawana, MO 2,378 pop · income 96th 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 Lake Lotawana
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lake Lotawana on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Bridgeport · lowest
31,723
Bridgeport · lowest
31,723 median HH income
19.5% of the leader · rank #1
Oak Leaf · near
162,083
Oak Leaf · near
162,083 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #2
Redmond · near
162,099
Redmond · near
162,099 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #3
Lake Lotawana · this city
162,188
Lake Lotawana · this city
162,188 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #4
Barclay · near
162,241
Barclay · near
162,241 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Libertyville · near
162,270
Libertyville · near
162,270 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
Oaks · highest
162,308
Oaks · highest
162,308 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 Lake Lotawana 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: 2,378.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Lake Lotawana - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Lake Lotawana places in the 96th percentile for household income and the 69th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
96th
percentile, household income
87th
percentile, home value
7th
percentile, median rent
69th
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: Lake Lotawana, MO
Missouri's Lake Lotawana is a small town, with 2,378 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $162,188 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.0%. Home values in Lake Lotawana run a median of $550,000, and the median resident age is 46.8 years. 61.4% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 66.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 66 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 128% from five years earlier. Lake Lotawana reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 889.4 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below 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: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Missouri at 90.8 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Below Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $972 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Missouri's average monthly utility costs around $219 (state average). On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 50.6 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Lake Lotawana'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 reported crime to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to population change to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lake Lotawana, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Lake Lotawana?
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 889.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 61% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
What does the journey to work look like in Lake Lotawana?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Lake Lotawana?
Within Missouri, the closest population matches are Sparta (2,378 residents, $61,630 income); Marlborough (2,366 residents, $47,011 income); Houston (2,407 residents, $41,250 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Holyoke, CO (2,378 residents); Pine Beach, NJ (2,378 residents); Carlton, OR (2,378 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.
Is Lake Lotawana 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 +446 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +19.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 66 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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 Lake Lotawana?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.0%, 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. 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.
Household income
$162,188
Home value
$550,000
Value / income
3.4×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Top-decile income · poverty 1.0% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
90.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Missouri average
A+
City profile score · Lake Lotawana, MO
94/100
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+
$162,188
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime A+
0 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate A+
1.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A+
61.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; 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.
Lake Lotawana profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $162,188
Violent crime: 97/100 (A+) · 0 /100k
Poverty rate: 93/100 (A+) · 1.0%
Bachelor's+ share: 93/100 (A+) · 61.4%
Cost of living: 83/100 (A-) · 90.8 index
Where Lake Lotawana sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Lake Lotawana'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 - Lake Lotawana highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Lake Lotawana, MO (this city): home $550,000, crime 889/100k
Holyoke, CO : home $260,000, crime 176/100k
Pine Beach, NJ : home $438,300, crime 221/100k
Carlton, OR : home $400,600, crime 809/100k
Bridgeport, AL : home $86,400, crime 1,371/100k
Madelia, MN : home $158,300, crime 380/100k
Sparta, MO : home $167,400, crime 660/100k
Houston, MO : home $115,200, crime 5,178/100k
How does Lake Lotawana compare to other US cities?
Where Lake Lotawana sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income96% higher than other cities
Home value87% pricier than other cities
Median rent7% pricier than other cities
Safety69% 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, Lake Lotawana ranks #61 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 Lake Lotawana 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 Lake Lotawana near the bottom of Missouri's cities
Among the 875 Missouri cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lake Lotawana ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lake Lotawana only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#15 of 842
98th percentile in Missouri
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 875
0th percentile in Missouri
Median Home Value
#16 of 833
98th percentile in Missouri
Poverty Rate
#783 of 875
11th percentile in Missouri
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#33 of 875
96th 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
96th percentile nationally for median household income · 69th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Lake Lotawana's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Lake Lotawana'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 Lake Lotawana's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$550,00013th percentilemore affordable than 13% 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
Lake Lotawana's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,535 of 15,516
More affordable than 45% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,932 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.4×, Lake Lotawana sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,535 of 15,516 and #6,932 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
$162,188Lake Lotawana, MO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lake Lotawana, 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 Lake Lotawana, MO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)61.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)66.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
2,378
Median Income
$162,188
Median Home Value
$550,000
Median Age
46.8
Poverty Rate
1.0%
Labor force participation
66.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
61.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
889.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
0.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
889.4
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
Lake Lotawana's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
2,310 residents
2021
2,329 residents
2022
2,411 residents
2023
2,516 residents
2024
2,653 residents
2025
2,756 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
66
housing units authorized
Single-Family
60
detached homes
Multifamily
6
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
27.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
29
29
0
$9.7M
2020
27
27
0
$10.2M
2021
67
67
0
$16.0M
2022
71
57
14
$20.7M
2023
75
59
16
$21.6M
2024
66
60
6
$22.2M
Permit volume increased 128% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
74.0%
Carpool
3.0%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
21.2%
Other
0.9%
Based on 1,244 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 Lake Lotawana. 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 Lake Lotawana 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 Lake Lotawana sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lake Lotawana 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.