Is Vinita Park a good place to live?
The best of Vinita Park’s subject grades are an A for walkability and an A− for cost of living; the weakest is a D− for safety. Vinita Park’s violent crime rate is 10.1 per 1,000 residents, above both Missouri’s towns (2.2) and U.S. towns (1.6). Vinita Park's public schools trail 96% of Missouri towns on state tests and graduation. On safety, just 6 of Missouri’s 213 towns do worse. Vinita Park has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Vinita Park stand out
Where Vinita Park beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Jobs vs. working residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Every workday, about 2,661 people come to Vinita Park for work
Where Vinita Park’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Vinita Park grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Missouri), ordered by how far Vinita Park is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Cahokia and 54 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Vinita Park. Close and well known come first.
Big draw15 mi State parkCahokia
Big draw9 mi Stadium & arenaThe Dome at America's Center
9 mi Stadium & arenaBusch Stadium
9 mi National ParkGateway Arch National Park2.2M visitors a year
9 mi Stadium & arenaEnterprise Center
22 mi Theme parkMid America AdventurePhoto 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 · Enterprise Center: Haaron755, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mid America Adventure: Chris Hagerman from New Port Richey, FL, US, CC BY 2.0
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Moving to Vinita Park: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Vinita Park, 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 Vinita Park.
More crime per resident than almost any U.S. town
Vinita Park reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 99% report less. At 49.8 per 1,000 residents, Vinita Park’s property crime rate is above both the Missouri town median (12.5) and the median of U.S. towns (9.9).
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
A larger share of adults have diabetes in Vinita Park than in most of Missouri or the rest of the country
18% of Vinita Park adults have diabetes. Only 10 of the 248 Missouri towns we compare have a higher share of adults who have high blood pressure than Vinita Park. 43% of Vinita Park adults have obesity.
| Vinita Park | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 22% | 19% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 12% | 12% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 30% | 25% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 15% | 14% |
| What stands out | Vinita Park | MO |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 5.8% | 8.6% |
| Fewer binge drinkers | 13.1% | 16.3% |
| More adults facing a utility shut-off | 22.1% | 9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
A typical Vinita Park home is worth about $100K
The typical Vinita Park home is worth about $100,000, up 4.4% in a year, 62% below the Missouri typical home. 52% of households own their home in Vinita Park.
| Vinita Park | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 52% | 64% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,154 a month | $971 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Vinita Park has 3.4 jobs for every working resident, and 2,661 people commute in
Most working residents leave Vinita Park for work: only 2% work in town. Vinita Park’s average trip to work is 19 minutes. Jobs based in Vinita Park grew to 2,679 in 2023, 378 more than in 2013.
| Vinita Park | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 21% | 14% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 19 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.3% | 13% | 8% |
| Median household income | $54,000 | $62,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Vinita Park, expect four seasons and hot summers
Vinita Park has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 88°, January nights drop to 23° and about 17 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Fewer children than Missouri overall
Children under 18 are 15% of residents (22% statewide). The median age in Vinita Park is 45.2 years. Vinita Park has lost 3.2% of its people since 2020, down to 1,923 in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate.
| Vinita Park | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 15% | 23% | 22% |
| Median age | 45.2 years | 38.5 years | 40.5 years |
| Aged 65 or older | 20% | 17% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 25% | 22% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
55.7% women, 44.3% men
About 80 men for every 100 women. Across Missouri, 50.7% of residents are women.
| Vinita Park | MO | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 8.6% | 11.9% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 6.1% | 10.4% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 5.5% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 18.8% | 13.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 10.5% | 12.8% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 15% | 11.6% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 15.5% | 13% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 14% | 10.6% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 6.1% | 7.3% | 7% |
| No diploma | 11.4% | 8.1% | 10.4% |
| High school | 37.3% | 30.2% | 26% |
| Some college | 21.8% | 20.8% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 5% | 8.4% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 16.4% | 19.8% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 8.1% | 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
Low risk in Vinita Park, with earthquakes at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 66% of U.S. communities. Since 1981, 2 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Vinita Park.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Vinita County Park | — | 17 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Vinita Park
Colleges nearby
24 within 15 miles of the center of Vinita Park
About 3 of every 100 Vinita Park residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Missouri.
About Vinita Park
City in Missouri, United States
Vinita Park is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, located just east of I-170 and south of St. Charles Rock Road. The population was 1,970 at the 2020 census.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Elevation
- 620 ft
- Area code
- 314
Vinita Park’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Vinita Park.
| Town | MO rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vinita Park | — | — | A− | D− | D− | D− |
| University City | #168 | C | C− | C | D | A− |
| Overland | #206 | D | B+ | D | D | C− |
| Hanley Hills | — | — | B+ | — | D− | D− |
| Pagedale | #244 | D− | A− | D− | D− | D− |
Vinita Park and Hanley Hills have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Hanley Hills reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Vinita Park with a neighbor →
Questions about Vinita Park
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Vinita Park, MO expensive?
Not for the area. That is 1.2 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 A−.