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Place dossier plate
SheetMO-WARSON-WOODS-MO · Warson Woods, MO 2,312 pop · income 98th 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 Warson Woods
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Warson Woods on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Thayer · lowest
36,477
Thayer · lowest
36,477 median HH income
18.2% of the leader · rank #1
Warson Woods · this city
200,104
Warson Woods · this city
200,104 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #2
Four Corners · near
200,110
Four Corners · near
200,110 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #3
Klondike Corn… · near
200,143
Klondike Corn… · near
200,143 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #4
Lantana · near
200,147
Lantana · near
200,147 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #5
Parkland · near
200,156
Parkland · near
200,156 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #6
Bloomfield Hi… · highest
200,318
Bloomfield Hi… · highest
200,318 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 Warson Woods 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: 2,312.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Warson Woods - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Warson Woods places in the 98th percentile for household income and the 87th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
98th
percentile, household income
88th
percentile, home value
7th
percentile, median rent
87th
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: Warson Woods, MO
Missouri's Warson Woods is a small town, with 2,312 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $200,104 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.6%. Warson Woods's housing stock carries a median value of $573,600, and the median resident age is 43.2 years. 88.6% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 66.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Warson Woods reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 456.9 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: 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. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Missouri run around $219, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Warson Woods'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 reported crime to housing and income to comparison shortlist to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Warson Woods, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Population change
Is Warson Woods 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 -30 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.5% 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Warson Woods?
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 456.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 80% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
How far does income reach against housing in Warson Woods?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.6%, 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Warson Woods?
Within Missouri, the closest population matches are Thayer (2,288 residents, $36,477 income); Granby (2,345 residents, $45,655 income); Marceline (2,269 residents, $55,139 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Center, CO (2,312 residents); Milford, ME (2,312 residents); Hartford, MI (2,312 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 Warson Woods?
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 72.6%. 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
22.1%
Drive alone
72.6%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 1,168 workers age 16+.
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.
Household income A+
$200,104
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
88.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime A+
0 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Poverty rate A-
2.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Warson Woods profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $200,104
Bachelor's+ share: 100/100 (A+) · 88.6%
Violent crime: 97/100 (A+) · 0 /100k
Cost of living: 83/100 (A-) · 90.8 index
Poverty rate: 81/100 (A-) · 2.6%
Where Warson Woods sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Warson Woods'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 - Warson Woods highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Warson Woods, MO (this city): home $573,600, crime 457/100k
Center, CO : home $115,600, crime 416/100k
Hartford, MI : home $95,200, crime 1,500/100k
Bar Harbor, ME : home $479,600, crime 504/100k
Maggie Valley, NC : home $312,200, crime 5,540/100k
Thayer, MO : home $69,300, crime 1,049/100k
Marceline, MO : home $96,000, crime 808/100k
Richland, MO : home $89,000, crime 2,073/100k
Lake Lotawana, MO : home $550,000, crime 889/100k
How does Warson Woods compare to other US cities?
Where Warson Woods sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income98% higher than other cities
Home value88% pricier than other cities
Median rent7% pricier than other cities
Safety87% 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, Warson Woods ranks #17 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 Warson Woods 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 Warson Woods near the bottom of Missouri's cities
Among the 875 Missouri cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Warson Woods ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Warson Woods only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#8 of 842
99th percentile in Missouri
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 875
0th percentile in Missouri
Median Home Value
#13 of 833
98th percentile in Missouri
Poverty Rate
#715 of 875
18th percentile in Missouri
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1 of 875
100th 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
98th percentile nationally for median household income · 87th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Warson Woods's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Warson Woods'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 Warson Woods's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$573,60012th percentilemore affordable than 12% 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
Warson Woods's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,947 of 15,516
More affordable than 62% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,123 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.9×, Warson Woods sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,947 of 15,516 and #5,123 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
$200,104Warson Woods, MO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Warson Woods, 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 Warson Woods, MO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)88.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)66.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
2,312
Median Income
$200,104
Median Home Value
$573,600
Median Age
43.2
Poverty Rate
2.6%
Labor force participation
66.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
88.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
456.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
0.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
456.9
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.
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Warson Woods's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
2,020 residents
2021
2,012 residents
2022
1,995 residents
2023
1,991 residents
2024
1,991 residents
2025
1,990 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
72.6%
Carpool
2.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
22.1%
Other
2.0%
Based on 1,168 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 Warson Woods. 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 Warson Woods 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 Warson Woods sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Warson Woods 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, 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.