Best PlacesSupply, AR Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Supply, 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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Supply ranks 47,273rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on a stable housing market by a wide margin, and biking ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in Supply

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Supply 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.

Supply's strengths and weaknesses

Top 10%A stable housing market
Top 10%Affordable childcare
Top 10%Low property taxes
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Supply with other towns.

Where Supply ranks high

  • Housing crash safetyBetter than 94% of towns
  • Cheap childcare$481 a month, better than 94% of towns
  • Low property taxBetter than 91% of towns
  • State fiscal healthBetter than 85% of towns
  • Air qualityBetter than 78% of towns

Where Supply ranks low

  • BikingBetter than only 3% of towns
  • Educational attainmentBetter than only 6% of towns
  • Cell coverageBetter than only 8% of towns
  • Health outlookBetter than only 9% of towns
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 10% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Supply

A household needs to earn about $40,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Supply home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $50,833, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$40,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$932
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $162,500 home
Median rent
$673
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$829
Property tax$49
Homeowners insurance$54

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 Supply's effective rate of 0.36%, 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 8 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 Supply

Supply runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
52
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
22%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.2
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1820%
18 to 3416%
35 to 4920%
50 to 6423%
65 and older22%

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


Who works in Supply, and how

Work in Supply centers on manufacturing and construction. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.

Work from home
8%
below the national average
Unemployment
0.0%
below the national average
Job growth
−33.1%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Manufacturing19%
Construction15%
Agriculture & forestry13%
Health care & social11%
Retail trade10%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 89%
  • Work from home 8%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 2%

Life in Supply

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Supply.


What the weather is like in Supply, month by month

Supply sees roughly 74 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 47, with lows near 31. 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
January47°38°31°
April72°60°50°
July91°81°73°
October76°62°51°

Flying in and out of Supply

The nearest airport, Cape Girardeau Regional, is about 87 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Memphis International, about 108 miles away.

Nearest airport
CGI
Cape Girardeau Regional, about 87 miles
Airport size
Nonprimary
7 nonstop destinations
Average drive
125 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Supply

Schools across Supply average a C−, better than 21% of towns.

Top elementary schools

Top high schools

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


Supply 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 Supply against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Supply

Is Supply a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Supply ranks 47,273rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on a stable housing market, affordable childcare, and low property taxes, and lowest on biking and education levels. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Supply expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $162,500. The overall cost of living runs about 21% below the national average. Set against a $50,833 median income, cost of living beats 18% of towns.

Is Supply safe?

Supply is safer than 25% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $594 per resident a year.


Compare Supply with other towns


Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Supply. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Supply 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.

Supply detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Supply 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.