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Place dossier plate
SheetMO-SULLIVAN-MO · Sullivan, MO 6,355 pop · income 35th 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 Sullivan
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Sullivan on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Salida del So… · lowest
29,631
Salida del So… · lowest
29,631 median HH income
15.9% of the leader · rank #1
Sullivan · this city
60,137
Sullivan · this city
60,137 median HH income
32.2% of the leader · rank #2
Broadview · near
60,139
Broadview · near
60,139 median HH income
32.2% of the leader · rank #3
Baxter Springs · near
60,139
Baxter Springs · near
60,139 median HH income
32.2% of the leader · rank #4
East Marianna · near
60,139
East Marianna · near
60,139 median HH income
32.2% of the leader · rank #5
De Smet · near
60,139
De Smet · near
60,139 median HH income
32.2% of the leader · rank #6
Medfield · highest
186,625
Medfield · highest
186,625 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 Sullivan 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: 6,355.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Sullivan - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Sullivan places in the 35th percentile for household income and the 3rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
35th
percentile, household income
28th
percentile, home value
7th
percentile, median rent
3rd
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: Sullivan, MO
Missouri's Sullivan is a small town, with 6,355 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Sullivan households earn a median of $60,137 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.5%. Sullivan's housing stock carries a median value of $153,100, and the median resident age is 41.9 years. Educational attainment runs 19.1% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 57.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 20 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Stable), up 0% from five years earlier. Sullivan's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 5691.2 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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $972 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $219 across Missouri, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 19.7 minutes, with 75.8% driving alone and 5.6% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Sullivan'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 population change to housing and income to work and mobility to reported crime to comparison shortlist to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Sullivan, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, local building permits, commute-mode shares.
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
Is Sullivan growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +39 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 20 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Sullivan?
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 2.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Sullivan?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 19.7 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Sullivan?
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 Shrewsbury (6,328 residents, $84,942 income); Willard (6,418 residents, $87,204 income); De Soto (6,452 residents, $46,181 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Medfield, MA (6,355 residents); Penitas, TX (6,355 residents); Foxborough, MA (6,356 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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Sullivan?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 5691.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 150% higher 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
5691.2
Violent rate
588.2
Property rate
5102.9
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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 6 public schools within the city match. 19.1% 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
5.5%
Bachelor's degree+
19.1%
Matched public schools
6
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Below median income · poverty 5.5% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
90.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Missouri average
D
City profile score · Sullivan, MO
45/100
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.
Poverty rate C+
5.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$60,137
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
19.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
588 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Sullivan profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 83/100 (A-) · 90.8 index
Poverty rate: 62/100 (C+) · 5.5%
Household income: 35/100 (F) · $60,137
Bachelor's+ share: 32/100 (F) · 19.1%
Violent crime: 10/100 (F) · 588 /100k
Where Sullivan sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Sullivan'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 - Sullivan highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Sullivan, MO (this city): home $153,100, crime 5,691/100k
Medfield, MA : home $734,200, crime 380/100k
Penitas, TX : home $175,100, crime 1,192/100k
Foxborough, MA : home $523,200, crime 899/100k
Shrewsbury, MO : home $266,600, crime 10,320/100k
Willard, MO : home $204,300, crime 639/100k
De Soto, MO : home $144,000, crime 3,933/100k
St. John, MO : home $96,900, crime 2,561/100k
Glendale, MO : home $510,100, crime 383/100k
How does Sullivan compare to other US cities?
Here's how Sullivan stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income35% higher than other cities
Home value28% pricier than other cities
Median rent7% pricier than other cities
Safety3% 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, Sullivan ranks #222 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 Sullivan 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 Sullivan near the bottom of Missouri's cities
Among the 875 Missouri cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Sullivan ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Sullivan only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#314 of 842
63rd percentile in Missouri
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 875
0th percentile in Missouri
Median Home Value
#288 of 833
65th percentile in Missouri
Poverty Rate
#589 of 875
32nd percentile in Missouri
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#326 of 875
62nd 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
35th percentile nationally for median household income · 3rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Sullivan's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Sullivan'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 Sullivan's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$153,100Among the most affordablemore affordable than 72% 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
Sullivan's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,231 of 15,516
More affordable than 73% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,798 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.5×, Sullivan sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,231 of 15,516 and #3,798 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
$60,137Sullivan, MO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Sullivan, 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 Sullivan, MO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)19.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)57.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
6,355
Median Income
$60,137
Median Home Value
$153,100
Median Age
41.9
Poverty Rate
5.5%
Labor force participation
57.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
19.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
5691.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
588.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
5102.9
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
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Sullivan's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
6,903 residents
2021
6,865 residents
2022
6,846 residents
2023
6,829 residents
2024
6,941 residents
2025
6,942 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
20
housing units authorized
Single-Family
18
detached homes
Multifamily
2
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
20
20
0
$3.7M
2020
2
2
0
$0.2M
2021
14
14
0
$2.2M
2022
17
8
9
$3.0M
2023
60
26
34
$9.1M
2024
20
18
2
$3.6M
Permit volume increased 0% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
19.7 minutes
Drive Alone
75.8%
Carpool
12.4%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
5.0%
Work from Home
5.6%
Other
1.2%
Based on 2,783 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 Sullivan. 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 Sullivan 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 Sullivan sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Sullivan 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.