Metro area · Missouri

St. Joseph, MO-KS metro area

St. Joseph, MO-KS is a metropolitan area of 4 counties in Missouri, Kansas, home to 119,170 residents. St. Joseph, MO-KS metro area has a quality-of-life score of 46 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #500 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Missouri it ranks #12 of 25. It ranks best on loneliness (low), cost of buying a home today (low) and drought exposure (low). It ranks worst on property crime rate (high), new homes permitted (low) and adult obesity (high).

46Moderate
Quality-of-life score
#500 of 925 metro and micro areas
Missouri
#12 of 25 in MO
Population
119,170 (2025)
Land area
1,656 mi²
Density
72.0 /mi²
CBSA code
41140

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of St. Joseph, MO-KS metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety30#643/924
  • Economy51#457/925
  • Housing67#303/925
  • Health26#689/925
  • Healthcare41#546/923
  • Environment49#464/917
  • Education41#546/925
  • Infrastructure47#488/925
  • Community76#223/925
  • Leisure & amenities40#552/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where St. Joseph, MO-KS metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

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.

Metro and micro areas like St. Joseph, MO-KS metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of St. Joseph, MO-KS metro area 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.

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).

Income

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

Homes

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

Getting to work

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

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

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.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in St. Joseph, MO-KS

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Buchanan CountyCentral county4583,540
  2. Andrew CountyOutlying county6218,241
  3. DeKalb CountyOutlying county449,795
  4. Doniphan CountyOutlying county687,594

States

The share of the area's residents living in each state.

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. St. JosephPrincipal city71,236

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. St. Joseph71,236
  2. Savannah5,053
  3. Country Club2,935
  4. Wathena1,554
  5. Highland1,069
  6. Elwood1,049
  7. Maysville947
  8. Agency871
  9. Stewartsville844
  10. Troy824
  11. Union Star559
  12. De Kalb518
  13. Osborn424
  14. Clarksdale399
  15. Easton336
  16. Fillmore299
  17. Amazonia286
  18. Rushville260
  19. Bolckow197
  20. Bendena140
  21. Cosby130
  22. Rosendale130
  23. White Cloud117
  24. Faucett114

Other metro and micro areas in Missouri

Areas based in Missouri, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

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.

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