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Place dossier plate
SheetMO-RICHMOND-MO · Richmond, MO 5,979 pop · income 34th pct · 6 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 Richmond
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Richmond on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Richmond · this city · lowest
58,906
Richmond · this city · lowest
58,906 median HH income
34.9% of the leader · rank #1
Stuttgart · near
58,906
Stuttgart · near
58,906 median HH income
34.9% of the leader · rank #2
Gordon · near
58,906
Gordon · near
58,906 median HH income
34.9% of the leader · rank #3
Lyons Falls · near
58,906
Lyons Falls · near
58,906 median HH income
34.9% of the leader · rank #4
Halifax · near
58,906
Halifax · near
58,906 median HH income
34.9% of the leader · rank #5
Glendale · highest
168,750
Glendale · highest
168,750 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
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 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: 5,979.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Richmond - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Richmond places in the 34th percentile for household income and the 30th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
34th
percentile, household income
22nd
percentile, home value
7th
percentile, median rent
30th
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, MO
Richmond is a small town in Missouri, home to 5,979 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Richmond report a median income of $58,906 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 12.2%. Typical homes in Richmond are valued around $135,500, and the median resident age is 38.5 years. About 10.7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 53.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 15 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 400% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 2086.8 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). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 52.6°F with 42.1 inches of precipitation per year.
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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $972 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $219 across Missouri, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. The average commute for Richmond workers runs 30.5 minutes, with 84.8% driving alone and 2.2% 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 Richmond'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 comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to work and mobility to housing and income to schools and households to reported crime to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Richmond, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count, annual population history, commute-mode shares.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What can 6 Census tracts reveal inside Richmond?
PlainCities matches 6 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Richmond?
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 Greenwood (6,000 residents, $104,638 income); Barnhart (6,036 residents, $96,042 income); Pevely (6,037 residents, $64,660 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Country Homes, WA (5,979 residents); Mattydale, NY (5,978 residents); Sharon Hill, PA (5,978 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.
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.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 52.6°F, with 42.1 inches of precipitation. 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Richmond?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 84.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 30.5 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.
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 Richmond?
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.
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 12.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.3×
Home value
$135,500
Household income
$58,906
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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.
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 10.7% 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.
Poverty estimate
12.2%
Bachelor's degree+
10.7%
Matched public schools
4
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Richmond?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2086.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 8% 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
2086.8
Violent rate
319.8
Property rate
1767.1
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Richmond growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -38 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 15 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
2020 estimate
6,006
2025 estimate
5,968
Period change
-0.6%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Below median income · poverty 12.2% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
90.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Missouri average
F
City profile score · Richmond, MO
38/100
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 F
$58,906
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
12.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
320 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
10.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Richmond profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 83/100 (A-) · 90.8 index
Household income: 33/100 (F) · $58,906
Poverty rate: 31/100 (F) · 12.2%
Violent crime: 30/100 (F) · 320 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 8/100 (F) · 10.7%
Where Richmond sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Richmond'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 highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Richmond, MO (this city): home $135,500, crime 2,087/100k
Sharon Hill, PA : home $163,200, crime 2,154/100k
Blaine, WA : home $500,600, crime 2,348/100k
Greenwood, MO : home $263,300, crime 471/100k
Pevely, MO : home $203,700, crime 1,335/100k
Battlefield, MO : home $207,100, crime 636/100k
Glendale, MO : home $510,100, crime 383/100k
Peculiar, MO : home $252,400, crime 1,120/100k
How does Richmond compare to other US cities?
Richmond measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income34% higher than other cities
Home value22% pricier than other cities
Median rent7% pricier than other cities
Safety30% 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, Richmond ranks #150 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 Richmond 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 near the bottom of Missouri's cities
Among the 875 Missouri cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Richmond ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Richmond only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#323 of 842
62nd percentile in Missouri
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 875
0th percentile in Missouri
Median Home Value
#349 of 833
58th percentile in Missouri
Poverty Rate
#347 of 875
60th percentile in Missouri
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#613 of 875
30th 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
34th percentile nationally for median household income · 30th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Richmond's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Richmond'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's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$135,500Among the most affordablemore affordable than 78% 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
Richmond's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#2,948 of 15,516
More affordable than 81% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,724 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.3×, Richmond sits in the affordable band:
national rank #2,948 of 15,516 and #2,724 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
$58,906Richmond, MO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Richmond, 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, MO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)10.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)12.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)53.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
5,979
Median Income
$58,906
Median Home Value
$135,500
Median Age
38.5
Poverty Rate
12.2%
Labor force participation
53.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
10.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2086.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
319.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1767.1
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
52.6°F
Annual Precipitation
42.1"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
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
Richmond's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
6,006 residents
2021
5,968 residents
2022
5,953 residents
2023
5,950 residents
2024
5,948 residents
2025
5,968 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
15
housing units authorized
Single-Family
15
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
3
3
0
$0.4M
2020
3
3
0
$0.6M
2021
5
5
0
$1.0M
2022
2
2
0
$0.6M
2023
5
5
0
$0.7M
2024
15
15
0
$1.8M
Permit volume increased 400% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
30.5 minutes
Drive Alone
84.8%
Carpool
8.1%
Public Transit
2.6%
Walk
2.4%
Work from Home
2.2%
Based on 2,494 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. 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 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 sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Richmond 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.