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SheetMO-RICHMOND-HEIGHTS-MO · Richmond Heights, MO 9,179 pop · income 71st 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 Richmond Heights
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Richmond Heights on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Toccoa · lowest
48,706
Toccoa · lowest
48,706 median HH income
19.5% of the leader · rank #1
Midway CDP (S… · near
90,662
Midway CDP (S… · near
90,662 median HH income
36.3% of the leader · rank #2
Painted Hills · near
90,662
Painted Hills · near
90,662 median HH income
36.3% of the leader · rank #3
Saline · near
90,662
Saline · near
90,662 median HH income
36.3% of the leader · rank #4
Richmond Heig… · this city
90,670
Richmond Heig… · this city
90,670 median HH income
36.3% of the leader · rank #5
Bloomington · near
90,677
Bloomington · near
90,677 median HH income
36.3% 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 Richmond Heights 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: 9,179.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Richmond Heights - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Richmond Heights lands in the 71st percentile for household income and the 1st percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
71st
percentile, household income
71st
percentile, home value
7th
percentile, median rent
1st
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: Richmond Heights, MO
Richmond Heights is a small town in Missouri, home to 9,179 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Richmond Heights households earn a median of $90,670 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 2.0%. Typical homes in Richmond Heights are valued around $345,400, and the median resident age is 35.4 years. About 76.0% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 74.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 10 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Low Activity). Richmond Heights's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 7777.9 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: 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. Monthly utility costs average around $219 across Missouri, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Richmond Heights'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 work and mobility to population change to housing and income to comparison shortlist to schools and households to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Richmond Heights, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history.
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. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Richmond Heights?
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 75.1%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Is Richmond Heights growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -202 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 10 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
How far does income reach against housing in Richmond Heights?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.0%, 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Richmond Heights?
Within Missouri, the closest population matches are Des Peres (9,145 residents, $214,167 income); Chillicothe (9,129 residents, $51,231 income); Sunset Hills (9,113 residents, $133,895 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Waterford, CA (9,177 residents); Cusseta-Chattahoochee County, GA (9,181 residents); Mound, MN (9,176 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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Richmond Heights?
The NCES join finds 1 public school within the city match. 76.0% 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 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.
Matched public schools
1
Bachelor's degree+
76.0%
Poverty estimate
2.0%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Richmond Heights?
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 7777.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 241% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
7377.3
Violent rate
400.6
Total reported rate
7777.9
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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.
Bachelor's+ share A+
76.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A
2.0%
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.
Household income B
$90,670
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
401 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Richmond Heights profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 100/100 (A+) · 76.0%
Poverty rate: 86/100 (A) · 2.0%
Cost of living: 83/100 (A-) · 90.8 index
Household income: 70/100 (B) · $90,670
Violent crime: 22/100 (F) · 401 /100k
Where Richmond Heights sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Richmond Heights'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 - Richmond Heights highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Richmond Heights, MO (this city): home $345,400, crime 7,778/100k
Waterford, CA : home $372,900, crime 1,065/100k
Perkasie, PA : home $338,700, crime 708/100k
Toccoa, GA : home $155,200, crime 2,985/100k
Des Peres, MO : home $591,800, crime 4,311/100k
Chillicothe, MO : home $119,900, crime 1,096/100k
Sunset Hills, MO : home $522,300, crime 1,301/100k
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 Richmond Heights compare to other US cities?
Here's how Richmond Heights stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income71% higher than other cities
Home value71% pricier than other cities
Median rent7% pricier than other cities
Safety1% 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, Richmond Heights ranks #230 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 Richmond Heights 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 Richmond Heights near the bottom of Missouri's cities
Among the 875 Missouri cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Richmond Heights ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Richmond Heights only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#102 of 842
88th percentile in Missouri
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 875
0th percentile in Missouri
Median Home Value
#48 of 833
94th percentile in Missouri
Poverty Rate
#742 of 875
15th percentile in Missouri
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#11 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
71st percentile nationally for median household income · 1st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Richmond Heights's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Richmond Heights'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 Richmond Heights's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$345,40029th percentilemore affordable than 29% 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
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,093 of 15,516
More affordable than 35% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,972 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.8×, Richmond Heights sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,093 of 15,516 and #7,972 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
$90,670Richmond Heights, MO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Richmond Heights, 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 Richmond Heights, MO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)76.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)74.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
9,179
Median Income
$90,670
Median Home Value
$345,400
Median Age
35.4
Poverty Rate
2.0%
Labor force participation
74.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
76.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
7777.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
400.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
7377.3
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
Richmond Heights's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
9,295 residents
2021
9,228 residents
2022
9,154 residents
2023
9,111 residents
2024
9,112 residents
2025
9,093 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Low Activity
Total Permits (2024)
10
housing units authorized
Single-Family
10
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
0
0
0
-
2020
4
4
0
$1.5M
2021
12
12
0
$5.1M
2022
9
9
0
$3.3M
2023
9
9
0
$3.5M
2024
10
10
0
$3.8M
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.1%
Carpool
3.1%
Public Transit
1.9%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
18.6%
Based on 5,535 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 Richmond Heights. 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 Richmond Heights 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 Richmond Heights sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Richmond Heights 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.