Rank	County	Score	Property Tax	Cost of Living	Income & Jobs	Health	Disaster Risk
1	Osage County	76.8	85.6	86.4	32.6	73.2	67.1
2	Worth County	76.5	79.7	94.6	13.5	65.2	91.8
3	Schuyler County	76.2	77.8	92.4	20	65	96.4
4	Chariton County	75.4	81	89.6	24.7	69.5	70.6
5	Douglas County	75	90.8	87.5	15.9	61.8	76.3
6	Holt County	74.8	80.5	86.4	21.6	68.2	84.3
7	Maries County	74.8	86.4	87.7	23.4	61.6	79.2
8	Ralls County	74.8	81	84.6	23.9	68.6	86
9	Cooper County	74.3	83.3	81.9	27.5	69.1	79.6
10	DeKalb County	74.2	81	82.7	28.5	67.9	84
11	Caldwell County	74	80.2	86.4	24.2	63.8	85.6
12	Andrew County	73.7	80.8	78	31.7	73.3	77.9
13	Putnam County	73.6	74.5	86.1	20.5	67.8	91.8
14	Mercer County	73.5	75.6	89.1	22.8	62.9	87.8
15	Monroe County	73.5	81.5	88.1	14.9	64	78.8
16	St. Clair County	73.5	84.3	88	13.9	62.8	74.4
17	Sullivan County	73.4	81.6	85.6	19.6	61.4	89.9
18	Linn County	73.2	80.7	88.1	23.8	63.7	68.8
19	Shelby County	73.2	77.1	88.8	17.4	63.4	84.1
20	Gasconade County	73	81.7	85.9	25.9	64.3	68.1
21	Harrison County	72.9	79.1	86.2	18.2	67.8	70.7
22	Howard County	72.9	77.8	81.8	24.3	67.7	86.2
23	Hickory County	72.6	89	86.7	6.3	58.2	76.6
24	Dade County	72.5	84	87	16	59.3	76.7
25	Lewis County	72.5	81.6	87.4	17.6	61.7	72.6
26	Livingston County	72.5	77	84.3	22.7	67.3	77
27	Bates County	72.4	84.8	82.9	21.2	64.1	69.6
28	Bollinger County	72.4	85	86.4	20.8	57.8	73.8
29	Clark County	72.4	75	89.5	17	63.6	78.2
30	Wright County	72.2	91.5	89.5	14.3	58.9	42.6
31	Adair County	72.1	80.9	83.4	20.3	65.8	71.3
32	Ozark County	72.1	89.2	89.8	11	54.2	64.3
33	Shannon County	72.1	90.1	89.3	21.9	57.7	42.5
34	Dallas County	72	88.8	86.2	18.1	58.9	58.3
35	Macon County	72	79	85	21.5	67.3	63.3
36	Webster County	72	87.1	81	28.9	65	55.4
37	Carroll County	71.6	78.5	84	23.7	65.7	67.4
38	Nodaway County	71.6	79.4	83.4	19.9	71	54.4
39	Daviess County	71.5	82.3	84.8	23	59.8	70
40	Ste. Genevieve County	71.5	84.3	82.9	23.4	68.1	45.4
41	Knox County	71.4	79.7	87.3	18.2	57	79
42	Pike County	71.3	80.7	85.8	21	63.1	59.7
43	Atchison County	71.2	69.3	88.5	22.1	63.9	78.3
44	Cedar County	71.2	85.8	83.7	13.1	58.5	74
45	Montgomery County	71	81.2	83.5	23.2	63.1	61.7
46	Carter County	70.9	89.8	86.7	12.8	58.5	46.1
47	Dent County	70.9	86.4	87.7	18.8	58	47.5
48	Reynolds County	70.8	89.3	89.9	12.4	57.7	36.1
49	Miller County	70.7	84.6	84.6	19.4	64.1	44.9
50	Moniteau County	70.7	82.1	82.3	25.9	59.2	69
51	Perry County	70.4	82	78.8	24.7	68.3	53.8
52	Vernon County	70.4	82.3	84.9	19	61.7	54.1
53	Wayne County	70.3	88.2	89.7	11.7	58.6	33
54	Gentry County	70.2	73.3	86.6	20.9	61.3	71.2
55	Grundy County	70.2	73.5	87.3	18.5	60.8	72.2
56	Madison County	70.2	81.6	83.6	21.5	64	49.2
57	Oregon County	70.2	88	86.8	12.3	55.9	51.3
58	Randolph County	70.2	78.4	83.1	19.5	63.7	64.2
59	Scotland County	70.2	78.5	87.1	27.5	54.5	67.1
60	Marion County	70.1	77.8	83.3	25.1	66	52.1
61	Texas County	70.1	87.4	86.9	14.8	59.6	37.6
62	Lafayette County	70	80.7	79.4	35	65.9	47.5
63	Ray County	69.9	79.3	80.4	30.5	64.4	55.6
64	Saline County	69.9	79.3	83.2	20.3	66.6	48.4
65	Phelps County	69.7	84.3	81.9	19.6	63.5	46.3
66	Barton County	69.6	81.4	85.1	15.7	59.7	56.4
67	Cole County	69.6	79.6	79.5	31.2	73.4	26.6
68	Henry County	69.5	79.7	82.8	20.4	65.5	47.2
69	Polk County	69.5	85.9	82	20.4	60.9	45.5
70	Johnson County	69.4	83	76.1	27.2	69	45.1
71	Stone County	69.3	88.4	80.8	23.4	65.5	23.3
72	Iron County	69.1	84	88.1	16.8	59	30.5
73	Ripley County	69	88.2	87.1	12.1	53.4	43
74	Benton County	68.8	86.6	84.2	17.5	59.6	33.2
75	Washington County	68.8	86.1	87.2	17.3	56.3	32.2
76	Pulaski County	68.7	85.1	74.9	26.8	67.9	39.5
77	Barry County	68.6	86.2	84	20.3	61	24.9
78	Callaway County	68.6	80.1	78.2	30.8	67.8	36.1
79	Audrain County	68.5	77.7	86.1	20.1	58.6	48.6
80	Lawrence County	68.5	85.2	82.3	19.8	61.4	33.8
81	Warren County	68.5	81.5	73.6	34.3	67.9	44.7
82	Howell County	68.2	86.7	85.9	15.9	58.9	22.2
83	Lincoln County	68.2	80.6	73.6	39	70	32.9
84	Newton County	68.2	83.1	81.2	25.5	65.4	22.5
85	Crawford County	68.1	85.1	82.7	20.2	55.3	45
86	Camden County	68	88.2	79.4	24.5	65.9	11.6
87	Pettis County	68	80.3	81.3	22.7	63.1	38.1
88	Stoddard County	67.8	83.9	84.7	18.7	59.7	25.7
89	Laclede County	67.7	83.9	81.6	16.6	61.4	34
90	Christian County	67.6	81.1	72	36.4	70	33.5
91	Cape Girardeau County	67.3	83.3	77.6	28.4	68.2	14.3
92	Clinton County	67.3	78.1	73	29.5	69.2	43.8
93	McDonald County	67.1	87.1	84.2	14.8	52.3	36
94	Scott County	67	83.9	81.4	21.8	61.6	19.9
95	New Madrid County	66.8	82.4	85.9	15.5	55.9	28.1
96	Franklin County	66.5	79.1	76.6	30.4	69.3	16.5
97	Taney County	66.4	86	78.8	21.4	62.2	16
98	Dunklin County	66.3	82.8	87.2	14.3	54.8	19.9
99	Morgan County	66.2	85.1	84.8	15.8	53.4	24.5
100	Buchanan County	66.1	79.8	78.8	22.2	63.7	25.6
101	St. Francois County	66.1	81.2	81.8	19.2	60.7	21.5
102	Cass County	65.9	77.6	67.6	40.4	74.1	25.1
103	Butler County	65.8	83.3	84.2	15.5	56.9	16.9
104	Greene County	65.8	82	76.2	20.9	69.3	9.9
105	Boone County	65.7	77.6	71.6	29	75.4	14.3
106	Mississippi County	65.2	77.6	85.8	13.6	50.2	42.8
107	Jefferson County	65.1	78.7	73	35.9	69.4	9.5
108	Jasper County	64.9	81.5	78	20.9	62.4	14.4
109	Platte County	64.4	72.5	62.1	45.9	77.3	28.6
110	St. Charles County	62.7	70.6	61.5	50.6	78.9	7.4
111	Clay County	62.6	71.4	65.3	39.6	75.2	10.2
112	Pemiscot County	62.5	73.8	85.9	10	51.1	22
113	St. Louis County	60.7	67.8	67.1	36.5	73.1	0.7
114	St. Louis city	60.6	72.9	74.1	19.5	63.6	1.3
115	Jackson County	60	70	69.1	27.2	67.7	3.5

Data: U.S. Census Bureau ACS, FBI UCR, CDC, FEMA NRI, NCES, EPA SDWIS. Scores are 0-100 (higher is better). Rankings are based on available data dimensions and may change as new data sources are added. This information is for research purposes only and should not be the sole factor in relocation decisions.

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