Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Pacific is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C+ overall, ranked 131st of 247 in Missouri, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is incomes: the median household earns $63K. Its lowest everyday mark is in health: residents are less healthy than 61% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. A typical home there costs about $247K, 3.1 years of the St. Louis metro’s $80K median household income. Red Cedar Inn is on the National Register of Historic Places. FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 82% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. The biggest park or preserve is Pacific Community Park, at 30 acres.
Where Pacific beats most towns.
Census counts: 437 in 1860, 7,414 in 2020. The archive holds 24 old photos and papers going back to 1869 and 4 maps from 1937 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Missouri), ordered by how far Pacific is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Who provides power, water and the rest in Pacific, 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 Pacific.
Pacific is healthier than towns with similar incomes and fares better on crime within Missouri than nationally, but it has a long record of flood insurance claims.
425 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 92 properties have flooded more than once.
Since 1982, 425 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Pacific.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Its public schools are run by Meramec Valley R-III. Two of its 7 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The largest public high school is Pacific High, with 973 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zitzman Elem.Largest public elementary schoolGrades K–4 | Grades K–4 | 469 | B+ |
| Pacific HighLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 973 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within MO on state tests and graduation
Pacific has chilly winters and warm summers. Pacific’s July high is 89°F, where Missouri’s towns sit at 88°F and U.S. towns at 85°F.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Most working residents leave Pacific for work: only 12% work in town. Pacific’s average trip to work is 29 minutes, above both Missouri’s towns (22 minutes) and U.S. towns (25 minutes). 5.5% of Pacific residents live below the poverty line.
| Pacific | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 5.5% | 14% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $63,000 | $62,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 12% | 13% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Against the 9,574 U.S. towns with household incomes like Pacific’s, it is healthier than 58%, so its C+ isn’t only a matter of income. Within Missouri it is healthier than 61% of the 247 graded towns: much of Missouri scores lower on these measures.
19% of adults binge drink in Pacific. Pacific beats the Missouri average on 1 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 3. 39% of adults have obesity in Pacific.
| Pacific | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 16% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 38% | 35% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 77% | 78% | 79% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 32% | 33% |
| What stands out | Pacific | MO |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 7.8% | 8.6% |
| More binge drinkers | 19.1% | 16.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
62.1% of renter households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, against 45.6% across Missouri.
The typical Pacific home is worth about $247,000, up 4.4% in a year, 7% below the Missouri typical home. Pacific’s median rent is $906 a month.
| Pacific | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $906 a month | $972 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 65% | 64% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
At 20.5 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports less crime than 57% of Missouri’s graded towns.
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
0.6 miles of trail in 6 parks and preserves. The trail density in Pacific is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Pacific | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 1.3% | 2.1% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Pacific Community Park | 0.1 mi | 30 |
| 2. Liberty Field | — | 26 |
| 3. Pacific Palisades Conservation Area | — | 4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Pacific. Close and well known come first.
Big draw39 mi State parkCahokia
5 mi Theme parkMid America Adventure
Big draw32 mi Stadium & arenaThe Dome at America's Center
32 mi Stadium & arenaBusch Stadium
32 mi National ParkGateway Arch National Park2.2M visitors a year
39 mi LandmarkMonks MoundCahokia: Thank You (24 Millions ) views, CC BY 2.0 · Mid America Adventure: Chris Hagerman from New Port Richey, FL, US, 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 · Monks Mound: Skubasteve834, CC BY-SA 3.0
1 within 15 miles of the center of Pacific
About 6 of every 100 Pacific residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Missouri.
4 notable people were born in Pacific.
City in Missouri, United States
Pacific (formerly Franklin) is a city in eastern Franklin County, Missouri, United States, extending east into southwest St. Louis County. The population was 7,414 at the 2020 census.
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2 towns share a border with Pacific.
| Town | MO rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific | #131 | C+ | B | B− | B− | C+ |
| Gray Summit | #93 | B | A− | — | B− | C |
| Eureka | #46 | A− | C− | B+ | A | A− |
Gray Summit reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Pacific with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Pacific grades C+ overall, better than 41% of U.S. towns and #131 of 247 in Missouri. It grades C+ for health, B− for safety and B− for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
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 B.
4 notable people were born here, including Catherine Maguire and George Hinkle.
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