Kidder TownshipMO
A town of 1,039, settled in 1860.
Is Kidder Township a good place to live?
Kidder Township’s best subject grade is an A+ for cost of living; its weakest is a D− for walkability. On walkability, just 3 of Missouri’s 419 towns do worse. On the outdoors, just 29 of Missouri’s 419 towns do worse. Kidder Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
1,039 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
How Kidder Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Missouri), ordered by how far Kidder Township is from typical.
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Moving to Kidder Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Kidder Township, 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Kidder Township.
On CDC estimates, Kidder Township is less healthy than 79% of U.S. towns
Kidder Township beats the Missouri average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 7. 19% of adults smoke cigarettes in Kidder Township, above both Missouri’s towns (17%) and U.S. towns (14%). 40% of Kidder Township adults have high blood pressure.
| Kidder Township | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 17% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 30% | 25% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 37% | 35% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 38% | 35% |
| What stands out | Kidder Township | MO |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 19.5% | 15.8% |
| More adults with heart disease | 8.1% | 6.8% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.5% | 8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Most of Kidder Township’s workers commute out: the town has 0.2 jobs for each of them
Most working residents leave Kidder Township for work: only 1% work in town. Kidder Township’s average trip to work is 27 minutes, above both the Missouri town median (22 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). The top destinations are Hamilton (15%), Cameron (12%) and Kansas City (9%).
| Kidder Township | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 1.4% | 13% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 27 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 11% | 14% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $73,000 | $62,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Kidder Township, expect four seasons and pleasant summers
Kidder Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 88°, January nights drop to 18° and about 8 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Inland flooding leads a moderate hazard risk in Kidder Township
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 60% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Kidder Township has set aside 0% of its land for conservation
2.8 miles of trail in 0 parks and preserves. The trail density in Kidder Township is 0.1 miles per square mile.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Kidder Township
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Kidder Township; the nearest are
About 3 of every 100 Kidder Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Missouri.
99% of working residents leave Kidder Township for work
Where Kidder Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Kidder Township
City in Missouri, United States
Kidder is a city in northwest Caldwell County, Missouri. The population was 267 at the 2020 census. The city was laid out in 1860 by H.B. Kidder or (Henry P. Kidder), of the Kidder Land Company in Boston, which was seeking to encourage non-slave owning European immigrants to settle along the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad which at the time was the furthest west railroad in the United States. The city received national publicity in 2004 after a student at the Thayer Learning Center in the community died after not receiving treatment early enough. In 2009 the Center was sold to become the White Buffalo Academy. The campus was formerly Thayer College and Thayer High School. Thayer College wa…
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- Area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 1,017 ft
- ZIP code
- 64649
- Area code
- 816
Questions about Kidder Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Kidder Township, MO expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A+.