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Place dossier plate
SheetMO-ROGERSVILLE-MO · Rogersville, MO 4,496 pop · income 22nd 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 Rogersville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Rogersville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Charleston · lowest
35,139
Charleston · lowest
35,139 median HH income
34.1% of the leader · rank #1
So-Hi · near
51,371
So-Hi · near
51,371 median HH income
49.8% of the leader · rank #2
Rogersville · this city
51,375
Rogersville · this city
51,375 median HH income
49.8% of the leader · rank #3
Lineville · near
51,375
Lineville · near
51,375 median HH income
49.8% of the leader · rank #4
Cortez · near
51,377
Cortez · near
51,377 median HH income
49.8% of the leader · rank #5
Ranchos de Ta… · near
51,380
Ranchos de Ta… · near
51,380 median HH income
49.8% of the leader · rank #6
Dexter · highest
103,182
Dexter · highest
103,182 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 Rogersville 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: 4,496.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Rogersville - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Rogersville lands in the 22nd percentile for household income and the 64th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
22nd
percentile, household income
44th
percentile, home value
7th
percentile, median rent
64th
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: Rogersville, MO
4,496 people live in Rogersville, Missouri - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Rogersville brings in $51,375 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 9.7%. Home values in Rogersville run a median of $205,900, and the median resident age is 30.7 years. 35.9% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 73.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 144 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 860% from five years earlier. Rogersville reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 989.4 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. 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 Rogersville'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 reported crime to comparison shortlist to housing and income 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 Rogersville, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates.
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. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Rogersville?
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 5 public schools within the city match. 35.9% 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Rogersville?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 989.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 57% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Rogersville?
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 Mountain Grove (4,494 residents, $41,875 income); Eldon (4,486 residents, $39,202 income); California (4,523 residents, $60,506 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Hallsville, TX (4,496 residents); Dexter, MI (4,495 residents); Cobleskill, NY (4,495 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Rogersville?
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. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Rogersville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 82.3%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Drive alone
82.3%
Work from home
5.3%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 2,392 workers age 16+.
Is Rogersville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,857 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +47.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 144 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
3,897
2025 estimate
5,754
Period change
+47.7%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
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 B+
72 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B-
35.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate D
9.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$51,375
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Rogersville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 83/100 (A-) · 90.8 index
Violent crime: 78/100 (B+) · 72 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 68/100 (B-) · 35.9%
Poverty rate: 41/100 (D) · 9.7%
Household income: 22/100 (F) · $51,375
Where Rogersville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Rogersville'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 - Rogersville highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Rogersville, MO (this city): home $205,900, crime 989/100k
Hallsville, TX : home $194,600, crime 580/100k
Josephine, TX : home $267,400, crime 1,067/100k
Hokes Bluff, AL : home $194,900, crime 487/100k
Mountain Grove, MO : home $89,300, crime 1,807/100k
Eldon, MO : home $116,900, crime 708/100k
Fredericktown, MO : home $120,200, crime 2,793/100k
Mount Vernon, MO : home $175,000, crime 1,829/100k
Charleston, MO : home $107,700, crime 2,361/100k
How does Rogersville compare to other US cities?
Rogersville measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income22% higher than other cities
Home value44% pricier than other cities
Median rent7% pricier than other cities
Safety64% 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, Rogersville ranks #74 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 Rogersville 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 Rogersville near the bottom of Missouri's cities
Among the 875 Missouri cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Rogersville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Rogersville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#460 of 842
45th percentile in Missouri
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 875
0th percentile in Missouri
Median Home Value
#162 of 833
81st percentile in Missouri
Poverty Rate
#459 of 875
47th percentile in Missouri
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#113 of 875
87th 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
22nd percentile nationally for median household income · 64th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Rogersville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Rogersville'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 Rogersville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$205,900Among the most affordablemore affordable than 56% 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
Rogersville's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,729 of 15,516
More affordable than 31% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,386 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.0×, Rogersville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,729 of 15,516 and #8,386 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
$51,375Rogersville, MO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Rogersville, 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 Rogersville, MO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)35.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)73.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
4,496
Median Income
$51,375
Median Home Value
$205,900
Median Age
30.7
Poverty Rate
9.7%
Labor force participation
73.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
35.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
989.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
72.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
917.4
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.
Schools
Total Schools
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Rogersville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
3,897 residents
2021
4,388 residents
2022
4,855 residents
2023
5,062 residents
2024
5,330 residents
2025
5,754 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
144
housing units authorized
Single-Family
116
detached homes
Multifamily
28
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
32
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
15
15
0
$2.6M
2020
195
62
133
$29.8M
2021
167
75
92
$26.5M
2022
57
57
0
$15.6M
2023
90
90
0
$18.4M
2024
144
116
28
$27.1M
Permit volume increased 860% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
82.3%
Carpool
9.8%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.0%
Work from Home
5.3%
Other
1.6%
Based on 2,392 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 Rogersville. 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 Rogersville 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 Rogersville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Rogersville 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.