Best PlacesGlen Echo Park, MO Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Glen Echo Park, 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.
Glen Echo Park ranks 48,689th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on biking by a wide margin, and crime is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Glen Echo Park
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.
Glen Echo Park's strengths and weaknesses
Where Glen Echo Park ranks high
- BikingBetter than 99% of towns
- TransitBetter than 99% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 92% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 91% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 90% of towns
Where Glen Echo Park ranks low
- Crime safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- School gradeF, better than only 1% of towns
- Household income$40,921 median, better than only 3% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 5% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 60 pleasant days a year, better than only 8% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Glen Echo Park
A household needs to earn about $24,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Glen Echo Park home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $40,921, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
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 Glen Echo Park's effective rate of 1.52%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Glen Echo Park
Glen Echo Park runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Glen Echo Park.
Who works in Glen Echo Park, and how
Work in Glen Echo Park centers on retail trade and education. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 80%
- Work from home 9%
- Transit, walk, or bike 11%
Life in Glen Echo Park
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Glen Echo Park.
What the weather is like in Glen Echo Park, month by month
Glen Echo Park sees roughly 60 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 93 degrees. January highs sit near 44, with lows near 24. The comfortable stretch runs April, May, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 44° | 33° | 24° |
| April | 72° | 58° | 46° |
| July | 93° | 81° | 71° |
| October | 74° | 61° | 50° |
Flying in and out of Glen Echo Park
St Louis Lambert International sits about 5 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 7.5 million passengers in 2025, with 114 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Glen Echo Park
Schools across Glen Echo Park average an F, better than 1% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Jefferson Elem.D− · 12% proficient
- Lucas Crossing Elem. ComplexF · 4% proficient
Top high schools
- Normandy HighF · 7% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Glen Echo Park school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Glen Echo Park 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 Glen Echo Park against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Glen Echo Park
Is Glen Echo Park a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Glen Echo Park ranks 48,689th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on biking, transit, and cell coverage, and lowest on crime and the schools. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Glen Echo Park expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $82,800. The overall cost of living runs about 24% below the national average. Set against a $40,921 median income, cost of living beats 12% of towns.
Is Glen Echo Park safe?
Glen Echo Park is safer than 0% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $2,540 per resident a year.
Compare Glen Echo Park with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Glen Echo Park. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Glen Echo Park 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.
Glen Echo Park detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Glen Echo Park: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Glen Echo Park: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Glen Echo Park: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Glen Echo Park: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Glen Echo Park detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- 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.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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