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Place dossier plate
SheetMO-SUNSET-HILLS-MO · Sunset Hills, MO 9,113 pop · income 91st 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 Sunset Hills
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Sunset Hills on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Grants · lowest
49,286
Grants · lowest
49,286 median HH income
19.7% of the leader · rank #1
Plymouth · near
133,865
Plymouth · near
133,865 median HH income
53.5% of the leader · rank #2
Sunset Hills · this city
133,895
Sunset Hills · this city
133,895 median HH income
53.6% of the leader · rank #3
Cerritos · near
133,953
Cerritos · near
133,953 median HH income
53.6% of the leader · rank #4
Bishop · near
133,958
Bishop · near
133,958 median HH income
53.6% of the leader · rank #5
Eagleview · near
133,958
Eagleview · near
133,958 median HH income
53.6% 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 Sunset Hills 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: 9,113.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Sunset Hills - the verdict
Sunset Hills ranks in the 91st percentile for household income and the 52nd percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
91st
percentile, household income
86th
percentile, home value
7th
percentile, median rent
52nd
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: Sunset Hills, MO
Sunset Hills is a small town in Missouri, home to 9,113 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Sunset Hills report a median income of $133,895 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.2%. Home values in Sunset Hills run a median of $522,300, and the median resident age is 50.2 years. Educational attainment runs 64.0% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 55.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Sunset Hills reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1300.7 incidents per 100,000 residents, below 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. 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 Sunset Hills'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 comparison shortlist to schools and households to housing and income to reported crime to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Sunset Hills, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Population change
Is Sunset Hills 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 -108 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.2% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. 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 Sunset Hills?
Within Missouri, the closest population matches are Chillicothe (9,129 residents, $51,231 income); Des Peres (9,145 residents, $214,167 income); Clinton (9,047 residents, $50,852 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Bogota, NJ (9,110 residents); Lake Mohawk, NJ (9,116 residents); Gretna, NE (9,117 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.
What does the education layer cover for Sunset Hills?
The NCES join finds 1 public school within the city match. 64.0% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Sunset Hills?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.2%, 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.
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 Sunset Hills?
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 1300.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 43% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1222.9
Violent rate
77.8
Total reported rate
1300.7
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Sunset Hills?
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 78.4%. 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
15.3%
Drive alone
78.4%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 4,225 workers age 16+.
Top-decile income · poverty 1.2% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
90.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Missouri average
A
City profile score · Sunset Hills, MO
87/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share A+
64.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A+
$133,895
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A+
1.2%
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.
Violent crime B+
78 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Sunset Hills profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 94/100 (A+) · 64.0%
Household income: 91/100 (A+) · $133,895
Poverty rate: 91/100 (A+) · 1.2%
Cost of living: 83/100 (A-) · 90.8 index
Violent crime: 76/100 (B+) · 78 /100k
Where Sunset Hills sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Sunset Hills'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 - Sunset Hills highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Sunset Hills, MO (this city): home $522,300, crime 1,301/100k
Bogota, NJ : home $443,400, crime 504/100k
Grants, NM : home $123,600, crime 2,044/100k
Dayton, TX : home $211,900, crime 2,251/100k
Chillicothe, MO : home $119,900, crime 1,096/100k
Des Peres, MO : home $591,800, crime 4,311/100k
Clinton, MO : home $147,700, crime 2,815/100k
Richmond Heights, MO : home $345,400, crime 7,778/100k
Ladue, MO : home $1,027,000, crime 893/100k
Warrenton, MO : home $193,100, crime 691/100k
How does Sunset Hills compare to other US cities?
Sunset Hills measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income91% higher than other cities
Home value86% pricier than other cities
Median rent7% pricier than other cities
Safety52% 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: Sunset Hills ranks #108 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 Sunset Hills 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 Sunset Hills near the bottom of Missouri's cities
Among the 875 Missouri cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Sunset Hills ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Sunset Hills only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#29 of 842
97th percentile in Missouri
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 875
0th percentile in Missouri
Median Home Value
#18 of 833
98th percentile in Missouri
Poverty Rate
#773 of 875
11th percentile in Missouri
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#28 of 875
97th 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
91st percentile nationally for median household income · 52nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Sunset Hills's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Sunset Hills'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 Sunset Hills's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$522,30014th percentilemore affordable than 14% 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
Sunset Hills's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,396 of 15,516
More affordable than 33% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,166 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.9×, Sunset Hills sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,396 of 15,516 and #8,166 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
$133,895Sunset Hills, MO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Sunset Hills, 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 Sunset Hills, MO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)64.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)55.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
9,113
Median Income
$133,895
Median Home Value
$522,300
Median Age
50.2
Poverty Rate
1.2%
Labor force participation
55.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
64.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1300.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
77.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1222.9
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
1
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Sunset Hills's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
9,183 residents
2021
9,148 residents
2022
9,082 residents
2023
9,069 residents
2024
9,086 residents
2025
9,075 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
78.4%
Carpool
4.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.3%
Work from Home
15.3%
Based on 4,225 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 Sunset Hills. 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 Sunset Hills 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 Sunset Hills sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Sunset Hills 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 ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.