Best PlacesWilbur Park, MO Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Wilbur 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.
Wilbur Park ranks 11,817th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on few empty homes by a wide margin, and crime is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Wilbur 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.
Wilbur Park's strengths and weaknesses
Where Wilbur Park ranks high
- Low vacancyBetter than 98% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 97% of towns
- BikingBetter than 93% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 93% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 93% of towns
Where Wilbur Park ranks low
- Crime safetyBetter than only 10% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 11% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 64 pleasant days a year, better than only 15% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,131 a month, better than only 15% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 18% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Wilbur Park
A household needs to earn about $58,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Wilbur Park home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $101,247, 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 Wilbur Park's effective rate of 1.22%, 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 10 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Wilbur Park
Wilbur 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 Wilbur Park.
Who works in Wilbur Park, and how
Work in Wilbur Park centers on retail trade and manufacturing. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 89%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Wilbur Park
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Wilbur Park.
What the weather is like in Wilbur Park, month by month
Wilbur Park sees roughly 64 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 42, with lows near 26. The comfortable stretch runs April, May, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 42° | 33° | 26° |
| April | 70° | 57° | 46° |
| July | 90° | 80° | 70° |
| October | 72° | 59° | 48° |
Flying in and out of Wilbur Park
St Louis Lambert International sits about 14 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 Wilbur Park
Schools across Wilbur Park average a C, better than 32% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Bayless ElementaryC · 35% proficient
Top middle schools
- Bayless Junior HighC+ · 37% proficient
Top high schools
- Bayless Senior HighD · 22% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Wilbur Park school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Wilbur 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 Wilbur Park against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Wilbur Park
Is Wilbur Park a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Wilbur Park ranks 11,817th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on few empty homes, cell coverage, and biking, and lowest on crime and noise. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Wilbur Park expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $211,477. The overall cost of living runs about 17% below the national average. Set against a $101,247 median income, cost of living beats 92% of towns.
Is Wilbur Park safe?
Wilbur Park is safer than 10% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $594 per resident a year.
Compare Wilbur Park with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Wilbur Park. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Wilbur 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.
Wilbur Park detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Wilbur Park: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Wilbur Park: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Wilbur Park: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Wilbur Park: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Wilbur 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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