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Place dossier plate
SheetMO-SMITHVILLE-MO · Smithville, MO 10,552 pop · income 78th 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 Smithville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Smithville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Palatka · lowest
33,628
Palatka · lowest
33,628 median HH income
27.5% of the leader · rank #1
Port Chester · near
99,916
Port Chester · near
99,916 median HH income
81.6% of the leader · rank #2
Smithville · this city
99,925
Smithville · this city
99,925 median HH income
81.6% of the leader · rank #3
Bridgeport · near
99,936
Bridgeport · near
99,936 median HH income
81.6% of the leader · rank #4
Hunters Creek · near
99,942
Hunters Creek · near
99,942 median HH income
81.6% of the leader · rank #5
Lower Berkshi… · near
99,957
Lower Berkshi… · near
99,957 median HH income
81.6% of the leader · rank #6
Linthicum · highest
122,424
Linthicum · highest
122,424 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 Smithville 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: 10,552.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Smithville - the verdict
Nationally, Smithville sits in the 78th percentile for household income and the 69th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
78th
percentile, household income
60th
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: Smithville, MO
Missouri's Smithville is a small town, with 10,552 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $99,925 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 5.6%. Typical homes in Smithville are valued around $272,500, and the median resident age is 36.8 years. About 29.7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 66.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 92 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 80% from five years earlier. Smithville reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 890.9 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: 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. Monthly utility costs average around $219 across Missouri, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 50.6 out of 100 (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Smithville'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 population change to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Smithville, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, annual population history, matched public-school count.
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.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Smithville?
The NCES join finds 5 public schools within the city match. 29.7% 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.
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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Smithville?
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 890.9 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.
Is Smithville 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 +678 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +6.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 92 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Smithville?
Within Missouri, the closest population matches are Maryville (10,556 residents, $48,099 income); Bellefontaine Neighbors (10,562 residents, $48,354 income); Excelsior Springs (10,502 residents, $74,056 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Bellmead, TX (10,550 residents); Palatka, FL (10,558 residents); Little Canada, MN (10,546 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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Smithville?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 82.1%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
10.9%
Drive alone
82.1%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 5,436 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Smithville?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.6%, 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
$99,925
Home value
$272,500
Value / income
2.7×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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 B+
$99,925
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C+
5.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C
29.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime C-
184 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Smithville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 83/100 (A-) · 90.8 index
Household income: 77/100 (B+) · $99,925
Poverty rate: 62/100 (C+) · 5.6%
Bachelor's+ share: 57/100 (C) · 29.7%
Violent crime: 50/100 (C-) · 184 /100k
Where Smithville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Smithville'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 - Smithville highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Smithville, MO (this city): home $272,500, crime 891/100k
Bellmead, TX : home $117,600, crime 3,641/100k
Palatka, FL : home $112,300, crime 4,003/100k
Heath, OH : home $215,000, crime 4,536/100k
Maryville, MO : home $178,900, crime 1,910/100k
Bellefontaine Neighbors, MO : home $92,500, crime 3,693/100k
Excelsior Springs, MO : home $174,000, crime 2,721/100k
Kearney, MO : home $275,200, crime 825/100k
Kennett, MO : home $103,600, crime 4,552/100k
Bolivar, MO : home $188,700, crime 1,198/100k
How does Smithville compare to other US cities?
Where Smithville sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income78% higher than other cities
Home value60% 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.
Zoom in to just Missouri and the picture shifts: Smithville ranks #62 of 234 Missouri cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Smithville 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 Smithville near the bottom of Missouri's cities
Among the 875 Missouri cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Smithville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Smithville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#80 of 842
90th percentile in Missouri
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 875
0th percentile in Missouri
Median Home Value
#80 of 833
90th percentile in Missouri
Poverty Rate
#586 of 875
33rd percentile in Missouri
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#162 of 875
81st 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
78th percentile nationally for median household income · 69th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Smithville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Smithville'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 Smithville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$272,50040th percentilemore affordable than 40% 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
Smithville's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,172 of 15,516
More affordable than 67% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#582 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.7×, Smithville sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,172 of 15,516 and #582 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
$99,925Smithville, MO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Smithville, 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 Smithville, MO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)29.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)66.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
10,552
Median Income
$99,925
Median Home Value
$272,500
Median Age
36.8
Poverty Rate
5.6%
Labor force participation
66.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
29.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
890.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
183.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
707.2
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
Smithville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
10,482 residents
2021
10,588 residents
2022
10,647 residents
2023
10,785 residents
2024
10,931 residents
2025
11,160 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
92
housing units authorized
Single-Family
92
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
8.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
51
51
0
$11.1M
2020
50
50
0
$13.1M
2021
48
48
0
$14.3M
2022
58
58
0
$16.7M
2023
33
33
0
$10.9M
2024
92
92
0
$24.1M
Permit volume increased 80% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
82.1%
Carpool
4.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.6%
Work from Home
10.9%
Other
0.8%
Based on 5,436 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 Smithville. 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 Smithville 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 Smithville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Smithville 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.