Lone JackMO
A town of 1,896, settled in 1839. 39% more nonprofits per person than the typical Missouri town.
Is Lone Jack a good place to live?
The best of Lone Jack’s subject grades are an A for incomes and civic life. 35% of residents are under 18 in Lone Jack, above both the Missouri town median (23%) and the median of U.S. towns (22%). On hazard risk, just 2 of Missouri’s 419 towns do better. Only 4 of Missouri’s 419 towns score lower on the outdoors. Lone Jack has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Lone Jack stand out
Where Lone Jack beats most towns.
Community nonprofits per 1,000 residents
Lone Jack has grown 77% since 2010
1,050 counted in 2010 and 1,492 in 2020; an estimated 1,896 in 2025.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
How Lone Jack grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Missouri), ordered by how far Lone Jack is from typical.
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Moving to Lone Jack: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Lone Jack, 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 Lone Jack.
Lone Jack’s typical home value is about $447K
The typical Lone Jack home is worth about $447,000, up 4.6% in a year, 68% above the Missouri typical home. 90% of households own their home in Lone Jack, where Missouri’s towns sit at 64% and U.S. towns at 73%.
| Lone Jack | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 90% | 64% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,203 a month | $971 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Lone Jack’s schools rank behind 54% of Missouri districts
Its public schools are run by the Lone Jack C-6 school district. Its two schools are below. The largest public high school is Lone Jack High, with 400 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lone Jack Elem.Largest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 333 | C+ |
| Lone Jack HighLargest public high schoolGrades 6–12 | Grades 6–12 | 400 | B |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within MO on state tests and graduation
The FEMA risk score in Lone Jack is lower than in the typical Missouri or U.S. town
Lone Jack’s FEMA risk score is 17 of 100.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Most of Lone Jack’s workers commute out: the town has 0.5 jobs for each of them
Most working residents leave Lone Jack for work: only 4% work in town. The average trip to work in Lone Jack is 33 minutes. Jobs based in Lone Jack grew to 396 in 2023, 75 more than in 2013.
| Lone Jack | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 33 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $121,000 | $62,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 5.5% | 14% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 4.2% | 13% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Lone Jack is healthier than 73% of U.S. towns
Lone Jack beats the Missouri average on 18 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 3. 21% of adults binge drink in Lone Jack.
| Lone Jack | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 16% | 16% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 38% | 36% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 8.3% | 12% | 12% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 37% | 35% |
| What stands out | Lone Jack | MO |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.1% | 13.7% |
| Fewer adults with diabetes | 8.3% | 12.1% |
| More binge drinkers | 21.1% | 16.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Lone Jack stands out in Missouri and nationally: a smaller share of its residents are 65 or older
8.6% of Lone Jack residents are 65 or older. Lone Jack has grown 24% since 2020, to 1,896 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. 36% of Lone Jack adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more.
| Lone Jack | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aged 65 or older | 8.6% | 17% | 18% |
| Median age | 33.8 years | 38.5 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 36% | 22% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
Somewhere between 38% and 64% women
The Census survey reached too few of Lone Jack’s residents to say more: its margin here is ±12.9 points. Across Missouri, 50.7% of residents are women.
| Lone Jack | MO | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 18.4% | 11.9% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 16.1% | 10.4% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 6.3% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 14.4% | 13.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 16.1% | 12.8% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 10.9% | 11.6% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 9.2% | 13% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 5.3% | 10.6% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 3.3% | 7.3% | 7% |
| No diploma | 2.2% | 8.1% | 10.4% |
| High school | 22.1% | 30.2% | 26% |
| Some college | 27.3% | 20.8% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 12.1% | 8.4% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 24% | 19.8% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 12.3% | 12.6% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,900, single groups can be off by several points
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Lone Jack
Lone Jack has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 88°, January nights drop to 21° and about 17 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Everything we know about Lone Jack
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Lone Jack; the nearest are
About 5 of every 100 Lone Jack residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Missouri.
96% of working residents leave Lone Jack for work
Where Lone Jack’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Lone Jack
City in Missouri, United States
Lone Jack is a city in Jackson County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,492 at the 2020 U.S. census. It is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.
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- Area
- 3.7 sq mi
- Elevation
- 1,017 ft
- ZIP code
- 64070
- Area code
- 816
Lone Jack’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Lone Jack.
| Town | MO rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lone Jack | — | — | C+ | B | B− | B+ |
| Lake Lotawana | #57 | B+ | D | B+ | A | A− |
Lone Jack has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Compare Lone Jack with a neighbor →
Questions about Lone Jack
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Lone Jack, MO a good place to live?
39% more nonprofits per person than the typical Missouri town.
Is Lone Jack, MO expensive?
That is 5.4 years of the area's median household income ($83,460 across the Kansas City, MO-KS 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+.