Oakville, Missouri

Area Profile

35,333 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Oakville, in St. Louis County.

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How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Schools1413th of 2,668 cities measured49
Housing affordabilityTop 8% of 4,223 cities measured100
ClimateTop 40% of 4,223 cities measured72
Physical resilienceTop 41% of 4,182 cities measured67
Access2439th of 4,226 cities measured90
Economic stabilityTop 31% of 4,226 cities measured69
The quick read

In the public schools here, 35% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 15.4 students for every teacher.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 12% of median household income and the median home is 3.0 times it.

A typical July reaches 89°F and a typical January falls to 24°F, on thirty-year normals.

At a glance

Population
35,333
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$106,362
Top 16% nationally
Density
2,225/sq mi
15.9 sq mi of land
Median age
45.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
St. Louis County
Missouri
Metro area
St. Louis, MO-IL
Nearest major airport
STL
21 mi · St Louis Lambert Intl
Median home value
$318,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

44% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 85% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$4,380$106,362Top 16%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,245$50,231Top 17%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate6.4%Bottom 30%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute29.8 minTop 35%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher44.1%Top 15%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation63.0%Top 42%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$66,330Bottom 37%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median annual wage$49,990Bottom 40%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024106k91k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $106,362 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — St. Louis, MO-IL
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
General and Operations Managers46,410$93,140
Home Health and Personal Care Aides44,200$34,490
Registered Nurses35,200$83,180
Cashiers31,130$32,380
Retail Salespersons29,750$33,820
Stockers and Order Fillers28,940$37,840

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

35% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 52% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.4 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
8
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.4
across all schools here
Math proficiency
34.6%
Bottom 37% in Missouri
Reading proficiency
51.8%
Top 37% in Missouri
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
OAKVILLE SR. HIGHMEHLVILLE R-IX1,84716.2
OAKVILLE MIDDLEMEHLVILLE R-IX62914.632%57%
BERNARD MIDDLEMEHLVILLE R-IX57713.422%52%
BLADES ELEM.MEHLVILLE R-IX44215.840%47%
ROGERS ELEM.MEHLVILLE R-IX41716.047%58%
POINT ELEM.MEHLVILLE R-IX41315.943%55%
WOHLWEND ELEM.MEHLVILLE R-IX40915.127%43%
OAKVILLE ELEM.MEHLVILLE R-IX37515.037%47%

21.3% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Missouri’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,091 takes 12% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.0 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
12.3%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.0×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,091
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$318,600
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income3.00Top 48%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate86.0%Top 29%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±58514,242Top 4%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$51$1,091Top 40%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$10,577$318,600Top 26%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income12.3%Bottom 11%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2.3%Bottom 17%of 32,0012024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

7 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 89°F and January a low of 24°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 40.8 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 43, in the Good band, and about 2 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station CAHOKIA ST LOUIS AP, 12.1 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.8"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index58.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation40.8"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low24°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high89°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10022024 calendar year
Median air quality index43.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing47°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
43
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
58
90th percentile index
Days above 100
2
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

67 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, earthquake and hail.

HailHigh
Inland floodingModerate
EarthquakeModerate
Ice stormModerate

Low or minimal exposure: heat wave, lightning, cold wave, winter weather, tornado, landslide, strong wind, wildfire, hurricane, drought.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

St. Louis County records 13.1 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, higher than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 21.6 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 17.8 per 100,000 residents in St. Louis County.

Homicide
13.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
21.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
17.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
15.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for St. Louis County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Oakville rather than Oakville itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 21 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
St Louis Lambert IntlSTL21 mi11,020 ft
St Louis RgnlALN34 mi8,099 ft
Veterans Airport of Southern IllinoisMWA86 mi8,012 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in St. Louis, MO-IL

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
St. LouisSt. Louis city288,51257vs Oakville
O'FallonSt. Charles County93,80177vs Oakville
St. CharlesSt. Charles County71,50872vs Oakville
St. PetersSt. Charles County59,09274vs Oakville
FlorissantSt. Louis County51,77360vs Oakville
ChesterfieldSt. Louis County49,574vs Oakville
WentzvilleSt. Charles County47,06173vs Oakville
BellevilleSt. Clair County41,37055vs Oakville
WildwoodSt. Louis County35,133vs Oakville
University CitySt. Louis County34,68567vs Oakville
O'FallonSt. Clair County32,26267vs Oakville
BallwinSt. Louis County31,27973vs Oakville

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in Oakville

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
6312951,553$94,888