City · Stone County, Missouri

Reeds Spring, Missouri

Reeds Spring is a city in Stone County, Missouri. It has 1,112 residents. Reeds Spring, Missouri has a quality-of-life score of 42 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #9,059 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Missouri it ranks #184 of 375 cities and towns. It ranks best on unemployment rate (low), students per teacher (low) and new homes permitted (high). It ranks worst on average weekly wage (low), dentists (low) and distance to an emergency room (high).

42Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #9,059 of 15,651 cities and towns
Missouri: #184 of 375 in MO
Population: 1,112 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 741.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 2961112

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety22#12,271/15,637
Economy38#9,758/15,631
Housing94#923/14,977
Health22#12,225/15,609
Healthcare5#14,942/15,650
Environment34#10,256/15,453
Education41#9,271/15,649
Infrastructure78#3,406/15,650
Community74#4,124/15,651
Leisure & amenities54#7,211/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Reeds Spring, Missouri ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Stone County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Unemployment rate · low0.0%
98/100Missouri 4.0%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Students per teacher · low10.9×
94/100Missouri 12.7×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsStone County value
New homes permitted · high16.2 /1k
94/100Missouri 3.0 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Arts, entertainment and recreation · high6.8 /10k
86/100Missouri 4.6 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsStone County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.347
86/100Missouri 0.465United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Rent-burdened households · low37.9%
84/100Missouri 45.6%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070

Weaknesses

Average weekly wage · low$800
1/100Missouri $1,278United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsStone County value
Dentists · low15 /100k
2/100Missouri 64 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteStone County value
Distance to an emergency room · high18.9 mi
3/100Missouri 6.6 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesStone County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Missouri 5.3 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyStone County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high136 mi
6/100Missouri 33 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauStone County value
Mental health providers · low58 /100k
7/100Missouri 278 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteStone County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
1,266 (2015-2019) → 1,112 (2020-2024)
−12%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
69.8% (2015-2019) → 95.4% (2020-2024)
+26 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Unemployment rateImproving
11.0% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
New homes permittedWorsening
30.0 /1k (2021) → 16.2 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−46%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Median household incomeImproving
$39,792 (2015-2019) → $56,364 (2020-2024)
+42%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
45.0% (2015-2019) → 37.9% (2020-2024)
−7.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Reeds Spring, Missouri improved on 2 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved2

Broadband+26 points69.8% → 95.4%
Household income+42%$39,792 → $56,364

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Reeds Spring, Missouri between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	21.6 min2015-2019	20.7 min2020-2024	−0.9 min	Within the margin of error	59%
Bachelor's degree or higher	12.3%2015-2019	19.0%2020-2024	+6.7 points	Within the margin of error	78%
Broadband subscriptions	69.8%2015-2019	95.4%2020-2024	+26 points	Improved	96%
Effective property tax rate	0.67%2015-2019	0.64%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	21%
High school diploma or higher	88.0%2015-2019	84.7%2020-2024	−3.3 points	Within the margin of error	10%
Home price to income ratio	3.1×2015-2019	3.3×2020-2024	+0.1×	Within the margin of error	71%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3702015-2019	0.3472020-2024	−0.023	Within the margin of error	70%
Median household income	$39,7922015-2019	$56,3642020-2024	+42%	Improved	76%
Rent as share of income	26.3%2015-2019	22.6%2020-2024	−3.7 points	Within the margin of error	77%
Rent-burdened households	45.0%2015-2019	37.9%2020-2024	−7.1 points	Within the margin of error	77%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	17.7%2015-2019	13.5%2020-2024	−4.2 points	Within the margin of error	83%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Reeds Spring, Missouri five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Reeds Spring, Missouri in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Reeds Spring, Missouri itself moved +12.8 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,112 residents (±267)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

416 households (±98)

Reeds Spring, Missouri
Missouri share

Under $25k18%†73
$25k–50k27%†111
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

416 households (±98)

Reeds Spring, Missouri
Missouri share

Own64%265
Rent36%†151

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

495 workers (±133)

Reeds Spring, Missouri
Missouri share

Drive alone77%382
Carpool7.9%†39
Public transit1.2%†6

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Stone County, the county holding most of Reeds Spring's residents.

Stone County has 736 employer establishments, 225 for every 10,000 residents (0.91× the US rate of 248; 0.92× Missouri's), with 5,681 paid employees at an average annual pay of $36,363. The Census Bureau also counts 3,257 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 736; 3,257 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 225; US 248 · Missouri 244
Paid employees: 5,681
Average annual pay: $36,363; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Stone County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	91	27.9	1.80×More than typical	521	$45,150	429
Restaurants and other eating places	55	16.8	0.92×About typical	670	$28,336	20
Religious organizations	36	11	1.99×More than typical	142	$23,099	—
Lessors of real estate	35	10.7	0.87×About typical	75	$41,427	347
Construction of buildings	34	10.4	1.38×More than typical	121	$36,306	184
Traveler accommodation	34	10.4	5.77×More than typical	272	$38,048	34
Full-service restaurants	31	9.5	1.24×About typical	329	$39,353	6
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	30	9.2	2.91×More than typical	217	$42,590	104
Ambulatory health care services	29	8.9	0.43×Fewer than typical	143	$67,259	68
Other specialty trade contractors	29	8.9	3.54×More than typical	116	$56,681	132
Services to buildings and dwellings	28	8.6	1.27×More than typical	125	$39,488	331
Building equipment contractors	24	7.3	1.22×About typical	158	$42,601	79

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County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 32,664 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Reeds Spring, Missouri: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

843FY2017
381.8FY2018
293.5FY2019
297.8FY2020
172.1FY2021
596.6FY2022
189FY2023
-1.8FY2024

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Reeds Spring, Missouri, so they do not add up across cities.

Reeds Spring, Missouri's figures are part of those of Stone County, MO ($281.1K in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Reeds Spring is mostly in Stone County.

See federal money in Stone County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Reeds Spring, Missouri is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Eric BurlisonR-MO-7 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 4.6%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Stone County36100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Stone County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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