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Place dossier plate
SheetMO-WEATHERBY-LAKE-MO · Weatherby Lake, MO 2,465 pop · income 96th 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 Weatherby Lake
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Weatherby Lake on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Cabool · lowest
30,781
Cabool · lowest
30,781 median HH income
12.3% of the leader · rank #1
Honcut · near
168,068
Honcut · near
168,068 median HH income
67.2% of the leader · rank #2
Severna Park · near
168,091
Severna Park · near
168,091 median HH income
67.2% of the leader · rank #3
Weatherby Lake · this city
168,125
Weatherby Lake · this city
168,125 median HH income
67.2% of the leader · rank #4
Bridgehampton · near
168,167
Bridgehampton · near
168,167 median HH income
67.3% of the leader · rank #5
Windham · near
168,309
Windham · near
168,309 median HH income
67.3% of the leader · rank #6
Tokeneke · highest
250,001
Tokeneke · 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Weatherby Lake on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 2,465.
Weatherby Lake ranks in the 96th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
96th
percentile, household income
84th
percentile, home value
7th
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Weatherby Lake, MO
Missouri's Weatherby Lake is a small town, with 2,465 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $168,125 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 0.9%. Home values in Weatherby Lake run a median of $486,000, and the median resident age is 48.3 years. 61.5% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 64.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 2 residential building permits were authorized in Weatherby Lake (Construction Slowdown), down 50% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data.
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. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Missouri run around $219, per EIA 2023 residential energy 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 Weatherby Lake'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 housing and income to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Weatherby Lake, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, local building permits.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Weatherby Lake?
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 0.9%, 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Weatherby Lake?
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 63.9%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Weatherby Lake?
Within Missouri, the closest population matches are Cabool (2,460 residents, $30,781 income); Terre du Lac (2,460 residents, $93,115 income); Lake Ozark (2,451 residents, $80,476 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Lavaca, AR (2,466 residents); Tokeneke, CT (2,466 residents); Myersville, MD (2,464 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.
Is Weatherby Lake 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 +54 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 2 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Top-decile income · poverty 0.9% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
90.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Missouri average
A+
City profile score · Weatherby Lake, MO
93/100
4 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.
Household income A+
$168,125
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A+
0.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A+
61.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
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 N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Weatherby Lake profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $168,125
Poverty rate: 94/100 (A+) · 0.9%
Bachelor's+ share: 93/100 (A+) · 61.5%
Cost of living: 83/100 (A-) · 90.8 index
How does Weatherby Lake compare to other US cities?
Here's how Weatherby Lake stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income96% higher than other cities
Home value84% pricier than other cities
Median rent7% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Weatherby Lake 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 Weatherby Lake near the bottom of Missouri's cities
Among the 875 Missouri cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Weatherby Lake ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Weatherby Lake only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#13 of 842
98th percentile in Missouri
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 875
0th percentile in Missouri
Median Home Value
#21 of 833
97th percentile in Missouri
Poverty Rate
#784 of 875
10th percentile in Missouri
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#32 of 875
96th 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
96th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Weatherby Lake's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$486,00016th percentilemore affordable than 16% 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
Weatherby Lake's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,063 of 15,516
More affordable than 61% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,208 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.9×, Weatherby Lake sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,063 of 15,516 and #5,208 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
$168,125Weatherby Lake, MO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Weatherby Lake, 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 Weatherby Lake, MO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)61.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
2,465
Median Income
$168,125
Median Home Value
$486,000
Median Age
48.3
Poverty Rate
0.9%
Labor force participation
64.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
61.5%
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Weatherby Lake's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
2,085 residents
2021
2,088 residents
2022
2,104 residents
2023
2,117 residents
2024
2,129 residents
2025
2,139 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
2
housing units authorized
Single-Family
2
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
4
4
0
$1.4M
2020
2
2
0
$0.6M
2021
6
6
0
$2.6M
2022
3
3
0
$1.3M
2023
2
2
0
$0.9M
2024
2
2
0
$0.9M
Permit volume decreased 50% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
63.9%
Carpool
5.1%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
0.8%
Work from Home
29.2%
Other
0.9%
Based on 1,240 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 Weatherby Lake. 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 Weatherby Lake 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 Weatherby Lake sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Weatherby Lake 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, 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.