Neighborhood Scorecard

The neighborhood scorecard for ZIP 63144 in Saint Louis, MO blends seven federal datasets into a single letter grade of A- (83/100). The underlying inputs pulled for this ZIP include a median household income of $104,438, a median home value of $304,700, 77.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher, and an average commute of 20 minutes. Every value comes directly from Census ACS 5-Year Estimates tied to ZIP 63144, not a national average mapped onto the ZIP.

Cross-agency inputs extend the score beyond Census demographics. If any of these feeds is missing for 63144, the scorecard transparently drops that dimension rather than inventing a score.

Reading the grade means reading the dimensions together. The overall A- score for 63144 reflects a weighted blend — Income (20%), Safety (20%), Housing (15%), Rent (15%), Education (10%), Commute (10%), and Childcare (10%) — and each dimension is benchmarked against national percentiles rather than in-state-only comparisons. Strengths visible in the raw data include income, education, housing, commute, rent. The 6 nearby ZIP codes listed below provide immediate geographic context — two adjacent ZIPs can land several grade letters apart due to school-district boundaries, zoning, and commute arteries.