Best Places64105, MO Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 64105, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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64105 ranks 10,578th of 33,110 U.S. zip codes on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on walkability by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in 64105

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 64105 area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.

64105's strengths and weaknesses

Top 3%Walkability
Top 3%Population health
Top 3%Transit
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare 64105 with other zip codes.

Where 64105 ranks high

  • WalkabilityBetter than 99% of zip codes
  • Health outlookBetter than 98% of zip codes
  • TransitBetter than 98% of zip codes
  • BikingBetter than 97% of zip codes
  • Educational attainmentBetter than 97% of zip codes

Where 64105 ranks low

  • QuietBetter than only 1% of zip codes
  • School gradeF, better than only 1% of zip codes
  • Crime safetyBetter than only 5% of zip codes
  • Tree shadeBetter than only 12% of zip codes
  • Voter turnoutBetter than only 13% of zip codes

What it costs to buy a home in 64105

A household needs to earn about $80,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 64105 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $77,590; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.

Income to buy the median home
$80,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$1,876
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $290,579 home
Median rent
$1,554
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,482
Property tax$298
Homeowners insurance$97

Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses 64105's effective rate of 1.23%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 7 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in 64105

64105 runs younger than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
31
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
8%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
1.4
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 183%
18 to 3453%
35 to 4925%
50 to 6412%
65 and older8%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 64105.


Who works in 64105, and how

Work in 64105 centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
23%
above the national average
Unemployment
2.5%
below the national average
Job growth
+1.8%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Professional & technical20%
Health care & social12%
Retail trade9%
Finance & insurance8%
Hospitality & food8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 64%
  • Work from home 23%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 12%

Life in 64105

64105 has more restaurants and bars per resident than 95% of zip codes. That concentrates in some parts of 64105 and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
151
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 234.7 per 10,000 residents, more than 95% of zip codes
Coffee shops
32
about 49.7 per 10,000 residents, more than 96% of zip codes

What the weather is like in 64105, month by month

64105 sees roughly 108 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 41, with lows near 24. The comfortable stretch runs April, May, September, and October.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January41°31°24°
April69°57°47°
July91°81°72°
October71°59°50°

Flying in and out of 64105

Kansas City International sits about 15 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 5.7 million passengers in 2025, with 104 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
MCI
Kansas City International, about 15 miles
Airport size
Medium hub
40th-busiest in the US, 104 nonstop destinations
Average drive
21 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around 64105

Schools across 64105 average an F, better than 1% of zip codes.

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Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every 64105 school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


64105 measure by measure

Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare 64105 against the other 33,109 zip codes.


Common questions about living in 64105

Is 64105 a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, 64105 ranks 10,578th of 33,110 zip codes. It scores highest on walkability, population health, and transit, and lowest on noise and the schools. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is 64105 expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $290,579. The overall cost of living runs about 8% below the national average. Set against a $77,590 median income, cost of living beats 69% of zip codes.

Is 64105 safe?

64105 is safer than 5% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $941 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to 64105. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 64105 represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.

64105 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 64105: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 64105: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 64105: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 64105: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

64105 detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.