Rich Hill TownshipMO
72% more nonprofits per person than the typical Missouri town. 1,593 people call this town in Missouri home.
Is Rich Hill Township a good place to live?
The best of Rich Hill Township’s subject grades are an A for schools and an A+ for civic life; the weakest is a C− for health. On cost of living, just 24 of Missouri’s 419 towns do worse. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 80% of U.S. towns. Only one of the 248 Missouri towns we compare has a lower share of working residents who work in town than Rich Hill Township. Only 13 of Missouri’s 390 towns score higher on civic life. Rich Hill Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
How Rich Hill Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Missouri), ordered by how far Rich Hill Township is from typical.
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What makes Rich Hill Township stand out
Where Rich Hill Township beats most towns.
Rich Hill Township has grown 17% since 2010
1,406 counted in 2010 and 1,674 in 2020; an estimated 1,593 in 2025.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Rich Hill Township.
Health in Rich Hill Township trails 84% of U.S. towns
16% of adults report frequent physical distress in Rich Hill Township, where Missouri’s towns sit at 15% and U.S. towns at 14%. Among adults here, 19% smoke cigarettes.
| Rich Hill Township | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 17% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 30% | 25% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 15% | 14% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 25% | 23% |
| What stands out | Rich Hill Township | MO |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 10.1% | 8% |
| More smokers | 19% | 16% |
| More adults who have had a stroke | 4.2% | 3.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Rich Hill Township’s workers commute out
The top destinations are Chillicothe (38%), Kansas City (6%) and St. Joseph (4%). In Rich Hill Township, the average trip to work is 14 minutes. The median commute is under 30 miles.
| Rich Hill Township | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 14 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $99,000 | $62,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Four seasons and pleasant summers: that is Rich Hill Township’s year
July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 18° and about 14 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Rich Hill Township has a moderate natural-hazard risk, chiefly from inland flooding
Households in Rich Hill Township have drawn federal disaster aid in 6 declared disasters, most recently in 2021. On expected storm and flood damage, Rich Hill Township sits below 56% of U.S. communities. Expected losses in Rich Hill Township break down as 37% from inland flooding and 24% from tornadoes.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Everything we know about Rich Hill Township
Moving to Rich Hill Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Rich Hill 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.
100% of working residents leave Rich Hill Township for work
Where Rich Hill Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Rich Hill Township; the nearest are
About 2 of every 100 Rich Hill Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Missouri.
About Rich Hill Township
Township in Livingston County, Missouri, U.S.
Rich Hill Township is a township in Livingston County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. Rich Hill Township was established on November 30th, 1872, when it was split off from Chillicothe Township. Its original name was Grant, but five days later it was changed to Rich Hill on account of their fertile soil.
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Rich Hill Township’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Rich Hill Township.
| Town | MO rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rich Hill Township | — | — | C− | — | A | C− |
| Wheeling Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Chillicothe · Chillicothe Township | #92 | B | A | B− | A | D |
| Medicine Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Rich Hill Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Rich Hill Township reports no FBI crime data of its own. Wheeling Township and Medicine Township aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Chillicothe Township and Chillicothe are one community, graded once. Compare Rich Hill Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Rich Hill Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Rich Hill Township, MO a good place to live?
72% more nonprofits per person than the typical Missouri town.
Is Rich Hill Township, MO expensive?
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.
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