Is Lakeshire a good place to live?
The best of Lakeshire’s subject grades are an A− for schools and a B+ for health; the weakest is a D for hazard risk. Only 9 of the 248 Missouri towns we compare have a lower share of households owning their home than Lakeshire. Lakeshire is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns. Lakeshire has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Lakeshire stand out
Where Lakeshire beats most towns.
100% of working residents leave Lakeshire for work
Where Lakeshire’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Lakeshire grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Missouri), ordered by how far Lakeshire is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Cahokia and 55 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Lakeshire. Close and well known come first.
Big draw17 mi State parkCahokia
Big draw10 mi Stadium & arenaThe Dome at America's Center
10 mi Stadium & arenaBusch Stadium
10 mi National ParkGateway Arch National Park2.2M visitors a year
18 mi Theme parkMid America Adventure
10 mi Stadium & arenaEnterprise CenterPhoto credits
Cahokia: Thank You (24 Millions ) views, CC BY 2.0 · The Dome at America's Center: Paul Sableman, CC BY 2.0 · Busch Stadium: Lee Ann Ratledge, CC BY 4.0 · Gateway Arch National Park: Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Mid America Adventure: Chris Hagerman from New Port Richey, FL, US, CC BY 2.0 · Enterprise Center: Haaron755, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Moving to Lakeshire: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Lakeshire, 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 Lakeshire.
Lakeshire faces a very high natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 80% of U.S. communities. Since 1982, 2 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Lakeshire.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Lakeshire has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Most working residents leave Lakeshire for work: only 0% work in town. Lakeshire’s average trip to work is 28 minutes, where Missouri’s towns sit at 22 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. The top destinations are St.
| Lakeshire | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 9.9% | 14% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $62,000 | $62,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Lakeshire ranks healthier than 74% of the country’s towns
In the comparison, Lakeshire comes below both the Missouri town median (38%) and the median of U.S. towns (36%). Lakeshire beats the Missouri average on 17 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 19% of Lakeshire adults binge drink.
| Lakeshire | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 38% | 36% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 16% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 38% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 9.5% | 12% | 12% |
| What stands out | Lakeshire | MO |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 11% | 15.8% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.6% | 13.7% |
| More binge drinkers | 18.9% | 16.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Four seasons and hot summers in Lakeshire
Lakeshire has chilly winters and warm summers. The July high in Lakeshire is 89°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
A typical Lakeshire home is worth about $308K
The typical Lakeshire home is worth about $308,000, down 0.7% in a year, 16% above the Missouri typical home.
Typical home value
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Crime reported in Lakeshire
Lakeshire's reported crime rate is well below Missouri's. Lakeshire’s property crime rate is 4.6 per 1,000 residents. Most reported incidents are property crimes, mainly thefts.
| Lakeshire | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 4.6 per 1,000 residents | 12.5 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.7 per 1,000 residents | 2.2 | 1.6 |
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
An age mix much like Missouri’s
No broad age group is more than 4 points off the Missouri average. Lakeshire has lost 3% of its people since 2020, down to 1,510 in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. 29% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 32% across Missouri.
| Lakeshire | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 29% | 22% | 29% |
| Under 18 | 22% | 23% | 22% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
56% women, 44% men
About 80 men for every 100 women (the survey’s margin: ±5.1 points). Across Missouri, 50.7% of residents are women.
| Lakeshire | MO | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 15.5% | 11.9% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 6.2% | 10.4% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 7.1% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 15.3% | 13.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 15.3% | 12.8% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 9.2% | 11.6% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 13.9% | 13% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 10.1% | 10.6% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 7.3% | 7.3% | 7% |
| No diploma | 6.5% | 8.1% | 10.4% |
| High school | 26.1% | 30.2% | 26% |
| Some college | 21% | 20.8% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 17.2% | 8.4% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 19.5% | 19.8% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 9.7% | 12.6% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,500, single groups can be off by several points
Everything we know about Lakeshire
Colleges nearby
22 within 15 miles of the center of Lakeshire
About 5 of every 100 Lakeshire residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Missouri.
About Lakeshire
City in Missouri, United States
Lakeshire is a city in Concord Township, St. Louis County, Missouri, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,554 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Elevation
- 568 ft
- Area code
- 314
Lakeshire’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Lakeshire.
Lakeshire has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Lakeshire, Affton and Concord report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Lakeshire with a neighbor →
Questions about Lakeshire
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Lakeshire, MO expensive?
That is 3.8 years of the area's median household income ($80,196 across the St. Louis, MO-IL metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.