Best PlacesPine Lawn, MO Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Pine Lawn, 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.
Pine Lawn ranks 50,284th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on walkability by a wide margin, and the schools rank lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Pine Lawn
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.
Pine Lawn's strengths and weaknesses
Where Pine Lawn ranks high
- WalkabilityBetter than 99% of towns
- TransitBetter than 99% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 98% of towns
- BikingBetter than 95% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 87% of towns
Where Pine Lawn ranks low
- School gradeF, better than only 1% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than only 1% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 1% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 1% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Pine Lawn
A household needs to earn about $16,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Pine Lawn home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $27,292, 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 Pine Lawn's effective rate of 0.90%, 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 2 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Pine Lawn
Pine Lawn runs younger than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Pine Lawn.
Who works in Pine Lawn, and how
Work in Pine Lawn centers on finance & insurance and health care & social. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 74%
- Work from home 15%
- Transit, walk, or bike 11%
Life in Pine Lawn
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Pine Lawn.
What the weather is like in Pine Lawn, month by month
Pine Lawn sees roughly 58 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 Pine Lawn
St Louis Lambert International sits about 6 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 Pine Lawn
Schools across Pine Lawn average an F, better than 1% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Fairview PrimaryC− · 30% proficient
- Barack Obama Elementary SchoolF · 5% proficient
- Nahed Chapman New American AcaF · 3% proficient
Top middle schools
- Fairview IntermediateF · 6% proficient
- Acad Of Entre Stdy@louvertureF · 5% proficient
Top high schools
- Jennings HighF · 8% proficient
- Normandy HighF · 7% proficient
- Carnahan Sch. Of The FutureF · 5% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Pine Lawn school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Pine Lawn 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 Pine Lawn against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Pine Lawn
Is Pine Lawn a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Pine Lawn ranks 50,284th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on walkability, transit, and cell coverage, and lowest on the schools and crime. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Pine Lawn expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $61,153. The overall cost of living runs about 26% below the national average. Set against a $27,292 median income, cost of living beats 3% of towns.
Is Pine Lawn safe?
Pine Lawn is safer than 0% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $2,160 per resident a year.
Compare Pine Lawn with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Pine Lawn. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Pine Lawn 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.
Pine Lawn detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Pine Lawn: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Pine Lawn: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Pine Lawn: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Pine Lawn: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Pine Lawn 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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