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A city of 61,632, settled in 1848. Public schools that outperform most of Missouri.
Trash & recyclingBlue Springs grades B overall, 84th of 247 graded towns in Missouri, with clear strengths and some subjects that lag. Its schools outperform 87% of the state's and the median household earns $89K. Its lowest everyday mark is in safety: its police reported 141 violent crimes reported to the FBI in 2025, a higher rate per resident than 73% of U.S. towns. A typical home there costs about $309K, 3.7 years of the Kansas City metro’s $83K median household income. Blue Springs’ trail density is 1.4 miles per square mile, above both the Missouri town median (0.3) and the median of U.S. towns (0.4). On hazard risk, just 13 of Missouri’s 419 towns do better. The biggest place to walk is Burr Oak Woods Conservation Area, 755 acres with 13 miles of trail.
Where Blue Springs beats most towns.
52,575 counted in 2010 and 58,603 in 2020; an estimated 61,632 in 2025.
Growth hasn’t slowed: 5.1% since 2020, after 11.5% in the decade before.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Missouri), ordered by how far Blue Springs is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 129 in 1880, 58,603 in 2020. The archive holds 10 old photos and papers going back to 1913 and 5 maps from 1933 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Blue Springs. Close and well known come first.
Big draw12 mi Stadium & arenaArrowhead Stadium
12 mi Stadium & arenaKauffman Stadium
15 mi Park & preserveSubTropolis
17 mi Theme parkWorlds of Fun
10 mi MuseumHarry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum
18 mi Stadium & arenaCPKC StadiumArrowhead Stadium: Ichabod, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Kauffman Stadium: Mysteryman28, Public domain · SubTropolis: ErgoSum88, Public domain · Worlds of Fun: Tkexb173 at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum: Sallyrob at English Wikipedia, Public domain · CPKC Stadium: elisfkc2, CC BY-SA 2.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Blue Springs, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Blue Springs.
Blue Springs carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of Missouri (mostly inland flooding) and fares better on crime within Missouri than nationally, but it has property taxes 1.7 times the Missouri norm.
In the comparison, Blue Springs comes above both Missouri’s towns (2.1%) and U.S. towns (4.3%). 32 miles of trail in 32 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Burr Oak Woods Conservation Area | 13 mi | 755 |
| 2. Hidden Valley Sports Complex Park | 1.1 mi | 84 |
| 3. Burrus Old Mill Park | 1.1 mi | 17 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its public schools are run by Blue Springs R-IV. Three of its 19 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moreland Ridge MiddleLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 813 | A− |
| Blue Springs HighLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 2,429 | A |
| Lucy Franklin Elem.Top results in townGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 536 | A+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within MO on state tests and graduation
Most working residents leave Blue Springs for work: only 14% work in town. 7% of residents live below the poverty line in Blue Springs. Since 2013, Blue Springs has added 2,463 jobs, to 17,740 in 2023.
| Blue Springs | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 7% | 14% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 15% | 9% | 11% |
| Median household income | $89,000 | $62,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 26 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
At 30.4 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports more crime than 61% of Missouri’s graded towns. Reported crimes fell from 1,516 to 1,201 over the last three FBI years, a drop beyond ordinary year-to-year swings.
The property crime rate in Blue Springs is 17.1 per 1,000 residents. Blue Springs reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 73% report less.
| Blue Springs | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 17.1 per 1,000 residents | 12.4 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 2.3 per 1,000 residents | 2.2 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 96% of Missouri towns, with expected losses of about $222 per resident a year; that rating is what its A− for hazard risk is built on.
Blue Springs’ FEMA risk score is 24 of 100. Since 1982, 15 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Blue Springs.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Blue Springs has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 88°, January nights drop to 20° and about 9 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The median property tax bill is $3,324, against $1,948 across Missouri, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
The typical Blue Springs home is worth about $309,000, up 2.2% in a year, 17% above the Missouri typical home. 38% of Blue Springs renter households spend 30% or more of their income on rent.
| Blue Springs | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renters paying 30%+ of income on rent | 38% | 43% | 48% |
| Median rent | $1,277 a month | $970 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 69% | 64% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Children under 18 are 28% of residents (22% statewide). Blue Springs has grown 5.1% since 2020, to 61,632 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. 35% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 32% across Missouri.
| Blue Springs | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 27% | 23% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 35% | 22% | 29% |
| Aged 65 or older | 15% | 17% | 18% |
| Median age | 37.2 years | 38.5 years | 40.5 years |
51% women, 49% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±1.3 points. Across Missouri, 50.7% of residents are women. Median age: women 40.0, men 34.7.
| Blue Springs | MO | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 15% | 11.9% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 12.5% | 10.4% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 6% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 13.2% | 13.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 14.2% | 12.8% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 12.6% | 11.6% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 11.4% | 13% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 9.2% | 10.6% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 6% | 7.3% | 7% |
| No diploma | 4.3% | 8.1% | 10.4% |
| High school | 27.3% | 30.2% | 26% |
| Some college | 24.7% | 20.8% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 8.8% | 8.4% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 23.4% | 19.8% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 11.6% | 12.6% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Blue Springs beats the Missouri average on 10 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 2.
| Blue Springs | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 16% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 38% | 36% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 25% | 23% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 9.9% | 12% | 12% |
| What stands out | Blue Springs | MO |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 11.4% | 15.8% |
| Fewer adults with heart disease | 5.5% | 6.8% |
| More binge drinkers | 18.9% | 16.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
None within 15 miles of Blue Springs; the nearest are
About 4 of every 100 Blue Springs residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Missouri.
8.7% of the town is conserved land, across 32 parks and preserves.
5 notable people were born in Blue Springs.
City in Jackson County, Missouri, United States
Blue Springs is a city in Jackson County, Missouri, United States. Blue Springs is a large suburb located east of Kansas City. It is the eighth-largest city in the Kansas City metropolitan area and the tenth-largest city in Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,604.
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4 towns share a border with Blue Springs.
| Town | MO rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Springs | #84 | B | B− | C | A | B |
| Independence | #202 | C− | B+ | D | C+ | C− |
| Lake Lotawana | #57 | B+ | D | B+ | A | A− |
| Lake Tapawingo | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grain Valley | #76 | B+ | C+ | B− | A | B |
Lake Tapawingo isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Blue Springs with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Blue Springs grades B overall, better than 63% of U.S. towns and #84 of 247 in Missouri. It grades B for health, C for safety and A for schools.
5 notable people were born here, including Jacob Misiorowski and Bryan Pratt.
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