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Place dossier plate
SheetMO-NIXA-MO · Nixa, MO 24,131 pop · income 62nd pct · 19 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 Nixa
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Nixa on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
West Memphis · lowest
41,860
West Memphis · lowest
41,860 median HH income
37.0% of the leader · rank #1
Bowmans Addit… · near
80,489
Bowmans Addit… · near
80,489 median HH income
71.2% of the leader · rank #2
Nixa · this city
80,491
Nixa · this city
80,491 median HH income
71.2% of the leader · rank #3
Belcher · near
80,500
Belcher · near
80,500 median HH income
71.2% of the leader · rank #4
West Ishpeming · near
80,500
West Ishpeming · near
80,500 median HH income
71.2% of the leader · rank #5
Nicollet · near
80,500
Nicollet · near
80,500 median HH income
71.2% of the leader · rank #6
Wekiwa Springs · highest
113,067
Wekiwa Springs · highest
113,067 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 Nixa 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: 24,131.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Nixa - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Nixa lands in the 62nd percentile for household income and the 79th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
62nd
percentile, household income
53rd
percentile, home value
7th
percentile, median rent
79th
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: Nixa, MO
Missouri's Nixa is a small city, with 24,131 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Nixa report a median income of $80,491 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 4.8%. Nixa's housing stock carries a median value of $238,300, and the median resident age is 35.8 years. Educational attainment runs 34.8% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 64.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 192 residential building permits were authorized in Nixa (Construction Slowdown), down 35% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Nixa reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 651.5 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than 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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $972 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Missouri's average monthly utility costs around $219 (state average). Workers in Nixa report an average commute of 21.0 minutes, with 79.1% driving alone and 8.5% working from home. 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 Nixa'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 within-city variation to work and mobility to schools and households to comparison shortlist to housing and income to population change to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Nixa, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What can 19 Census tracts reveal inside Nixa?
PlainCities matches 19 Census tracts to this city.
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 79.1%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.0 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. 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.
The matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
The NCES join finds 1 public school within the city match. 34.8% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Nixa?
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 Raymore (23,849 residents, $103,158 income); Webster Groves (23,771 residents, $110,716 income); Belton (24,618 residents, $70,525 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Lexington, SC (24,132 residents); Collinsville, IL (24,126 residents); Shelbyville, TN (24,125 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.
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 Nixa?
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 3.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.0×
Home value
$238,300
Household income
$80,491
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +3,160 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +13.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 192 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
2020 estimate
23,437
2025 estimate
26,597
Period change
+13.5%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 651.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 71% lower 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.
Total reported rate
651.5
Violent rate
46.0
Property rate
605.5
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above median income · poverty 4.8% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
90.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Missouri average
B
City profile score · Nixa, MO
72/100
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.
Violent crime A
46 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Poverty rate B-
4.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B-
34.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C+
$80,491
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Nixa profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 85/100 (A) · 46 /100k
Cost of living: 83/100 (A-) · 90.8 index
Poverty rate: 67/100 (B-) · 4.8%
Bachelor's+ share: 66/100 (B-) · 34.8%
Household income: 60/100 (C+) · $80,491
Where Nixa sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Nixa'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 - Nixa highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Nixa, MO (this city): home $238,300, crime 652/100k
Lexington, SC : home $271,200, crime 1,684/100k
Collinsville, IL : home $157,700, crime 1,954/100k
Shelbyville, TN : home $224,700, crime 2,343/100k
West Memphis, AR : home $119,100, crime 6,580/100k
Emporia, KS : home $127,500, crime 2,671/100k
Raymore, MO : home $318,000, crime 1,259/100k
Webster Groves, MO : home $371,400, crime 769/100k
Belton, MO : home $185,400, crime 2,207/100k
Hazelwood, MO : home $154,900, crime 3,011/100k
Grandview, MO : home $171,200, crime 4,456/100k
Ozark, MO : home $230,600, crime 764/100k
How does Nixa compare to other US cities?
Where Nixa sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income62% higher than other cities
Home value53% pricier than other cities
Median rent7% pricier than other cities
Safety79% 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, Nixa ranks #37 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 Nixa 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 Nixa near the bottom of Missouri's cities
Among the 875 Missouri cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Nixa ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Nixa only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#150 of 842
82nd percentile in Missouri
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 875
0th percentile in Missouri
Median Home Value
#109 of 833
87th percentile in Missouri
Poverty Rate
#622 of 875
28th percentile in Missouri
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#122 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
62nd percentile nationally for median household income · 79th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Nixa's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Nixa'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 Nixa's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$238,30047th percentilemore affordable than 47% 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
Nixa's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,476 of 15,516
More affordable than 58% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#847 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.0×, Nixa sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,476 of 15,516 and #847 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
$80,491Nixa, MO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Nixa, 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 Nixa, MO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)34.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
24,131
Median Income
$80,491
Median Home Value
$238,300
Median Age
35.8
Poverty Rate
4.8%
Labor force participation
64.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
34.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
651.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
46.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
605.5
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
1
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Nixa's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
23,437 residents
2021
24,165 residents
2022
24,743 residents
2023
25,408 residents
2024
26,322 residents
2025
26,597 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
192
housing units authorized
Single-Family
170
detached homes
Multifamily
22
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
297
247
50
$57.7M
2020
214
206
8
$50.7M
2021
280
276
4
$76.9M
2022
311
190
121
$75.2M
2023
427
205
222
$82.5M
2024
192
170
22
$54.2M
Permit volume decreased 35% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.0 minutes
Drive Alone
79.1%
Carpool
8.7%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
3.0%
Work from Home
8.5%
Other
0.7%
Based on 11,507 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 Nixa. 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 Nixa 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 Nixa sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Nixa 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.