Midwest · Missouri · pop 286K
St. Louis, MO
Fair match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in MO, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,131 — covering estimated essentials here (about $952 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,859 left over.
Expect summer highs near 90°F, winter lows around 24°F, and about 202 sunny days a year.
Home prices are within reach relative to local pay — the median home ($180,000) is about 3.5× the median household income.
Tradeoff: reported crime rates are higher than most cities here, so research specific neighborhoods before deciding.
The St. Louis fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,272/mo
Typical rent
$1,120/mo
Home value ÷ income
3.5×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $990/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,120/mo
- Median home value
- $180,000
- Median household income
- $52,000
- Population
- 286,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 3.8%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 0.6%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 1,800
- Property crime rate
- 5,700
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 90°F
- Avg. winter low
- 24°F
- Sunny days / year
- 202
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈19/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈66/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈14/yr
- Annual rain
- 42"
- Annual snow
- 15"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+60
- Int'l airport
- ≈14 mi
- Walkability
- 65/100
- Disaster risk
- 60/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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