Best PlacesRichmond Heights, MO Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Richmond Heights, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Richmond Heights ranks 6,998th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on an educated workforce by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Richmond Heights
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.
Richmond Heights' strengths and weaknesses
Where Richmond Heights ranks high
- Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 99% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 98% of towns
- TransitBetter than 98% of towns
- BikingBetter than 96% of towns
Where Richmond Heights ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 1% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 4% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 58 pleasant days a year, better than only 6% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,121 a month, better than only 15% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 18% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Richmond Heights
A household needs to earn about $108,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Richmond Heights home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $101,557; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.
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 Richmond Heights' effective rate of 1.20%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Richmond Heights
Richmond Heights runs younger 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 Richmond Heights.
Who works in Richmond Heights, and how
Work in Richmond Heights centers on professional & technical and education. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 72%
- Work from home 24%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Richmond Heights
Richmond Heights has more restaurants and bars per resident than 89% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Richmond Heights and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Richmond Heights, month by month
Richmond Heights 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 Richmond Heights
St Louis Lambert International sits about 9 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 Richmond Heights
Schools across Richmond Heights average a B+, better than 74% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Meramec Elem.A+ · 77% proficient
- Mark Twain Elem.A+ · 73% proficient
- Reed ElementaryA+ · 73% proficient
Top middle schools
- Wydown MiddleA+ · 70% proficient
- Ladue Fifth Grade CenterA · 64% proficient
- Brentwood MiddleA · 60% proficient
Top high schools
- Ladue Horton Watkins HighA · 68% proficient
- Clayton HighA− · 66% proficient
- Brentwood HighB+ · 57% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Richmond Heights school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Richmond Heights 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 Richmond Heights against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Richmond Heights
Is Richmond Heights a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Richmond Heights ranks 6,998th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on an educated workforce, walkability, and population health, and lowest on noise and crime. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Richmond Heights expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $390,004. The overall cost of living runs about 11% below the national average. Set against a $101,557 median income, cost of living beats 94% of towns.
Is Richmond Heights safe?
Richmond Heights is safer than 4% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $988 per resident a year.
Compare Richmond Heights with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Richmond Heights. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Richmond Heights 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.
Richmond Heights detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Richmond Heights: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Richmond Heights: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Richmond Heights: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Richmond Heights: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Richmond Heights 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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