The 10 Cheapest St. Louis, MO Neighborhoods To Live In For 2025


The cheapest St. Louis neighborhoods are Kingsway West and Kingsway East for 2025 based on Saturday Night Science.

By: Chris Kolmar | About HomeSnacks
Last Updated: October 22, 2025
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Everything else equal, we can all agree that living in a cheaper place is better than living in a more expensive place.

I’d much rather pay $500/mo in rent than $1,000. And I’d rather pay $2 for coffee than $5.

And while every neighbhorhood in St. Louis might be more expensive than living in rural Missouri, there are certain neighborhoods that are definitely cheaper.

What exactly are those St. Louis neighborhoods where your dollar goes a little further — you can get that one bedroom instead of the studio?

Instead of relying on public opinion and speculation, we wanted to get the facts straight and determine which neighborhoods in St. Louis are the cheapest using Saturday Night Science.

The Cheapest Neighborhoods In St. Louis For 2025

  1. Kingsway West
  2. Kingsway East
  3. North Point
  4. Hyde Park
  5. Wells-Goodfellow
  6. Gravois Park
  7. Oarondelet Park
  8. Near North Riverfront
  9. Walnut Park West
  10. Franz Park

What’s the cheapest neighborhood to live in St. Louis for 2025? According to the most recent census data, Kingsway West looks to be the cheapest St. Louis neighborhood to live in.

At this point, we should make it clear that you do get what you pay for — some of these neighborhoods might not be the best places to live in St. Louis. You could be sacrificing location or crime rates for more space and cheaper groceries.

Read on to see how we determined the places around St. Louis that deserve a little bragging rights, or maybe you’re interested in the worst neighborhoods in St. Louis.

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Table Of Contents: Top Ten | Methodology | Summary | Table

The 10 Cheapest Neighborhoods To Live In St. Louis For 2025

1. Kingsway West

Overall SnackAbility

3
/10

Population: 2,327
Cost Of Living Index: 76 (9th cheapest)
Home Value To Income Ratio: 1.0 (2nd cheapest)
Rent To Income Ratio: 0.012 (5th cheapest)
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2. Kingsway East

Overall SnackAbility

4
/10

Population: 3,215
Cost Of Living Index: 79 (20th cheapest)
Home Value To Income Ratio: 0.9 (cheapest)
Rent To Income Ratio: 0.01 (3rd cheapest)
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3. North Point

Overall SnackAbility

4
/10

Population: 2,784
Cost Of Living Index: 76 (9th cheapest)
Home Value To Income Ratio: 1.2 (4th cheapest)
Rent To Income Ratio: 0.017 (30th cheapest)
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4. Hyde Park

Overall SnackAbility

1
/10

Population: 1,394
Cost Of Living Index: 73 (cheapest)
Home Value To Income Ratio: 1.2 (3rd cheapest)
Rent To Income Ratio: 0.028 (65th cheapest)
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5. Wells-Goodfellow

Overall SnackAbility

3
/10

Population: 5,099
Cost Of Living Index: 76 (9th cheapest)
Home Value To Income Ratio: 1.6 (9th cheapest)
Rent To Income Ratio: 0.024 (55th cheapest)
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6. Gravois Park

Overall SnackAbility

4
/10

Population: 5,442
Cost Of Living Index: 77 (15th cheapest)
Home Value To Income Ratio: 2.0 (16th cheapest)
Rent To Income Ratio: 0.02 (43rd cheapest)
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7. Oarondelet Park

Overall SnackAbility

7
/10

Population: 1,028
Cost Of Living Index: 91 (62nd cheapest)
Home Value To Income Ratio: 1.7 (13th cheapest)
Rent To Income Ratio: 0.008 (cheapest)
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8. Near North Riverfront

Overall SnackAbility

2
/10

Population: 1,924
Cost Of Living Index: 76 (9th cheapest)
Home Value To Income Ratio: 2.4 (25th cheapest)
Rent To Income Ratio: 0.02 (42nd cheapest)
More on Near North Riverfront:

9. Walnut Park West

Overall SnackAbility

4
/10

Population: 3,207
Cost Of Living Index: 78 (18th cheapest)
Home Value To Income Ratio: 1.3 (6th cheapest)
Rent To Income Ratio: 0.024 (52nd cheapest)
More on Walnut Park West:

10. Franz Park

Overall SnackAbility

8
/10

Population: 1,879
Cost Of Living Index: 85 (42nd cheapest)
Home Value To Income Ratio: 2.1 (18th cheapest)
Rent To Income Ratio: 0.015 (18th cheapest)
More on Franz Park:

Methodology: How We Determined The Cheapest St. Louis Hoods In 2025

To rank the cheapest places to live in St. Louis, we had to determine what criteria define “cheap” and then apply Saturday Night Science.

Using Census and extrapolated BLS data, we arrived at the following set of criteria:

  • Overall Cost Of Living
  • Rent To Income Ratio
  • Median Home Value To Income Ratio

We then ranked each neighborhood with scores from 1 to 77 in each category, where 1 was the cheapest.

Next, we averaged the rankings for each neighborhood to create a cheap neighborhood index.

And finally, we crowned the neighborhood with the lowest cheapest neighborhood index, the “Cheapest City Neighborhood In St. Louis.” We’re lookin’ at you, Kingsway West.

We updated this article for 2025. This is our fourth time ranking the cheapest neighborhoods to live in St. Louis. Skip to the end to see the list of all the neighborhoods in the city, from cheapest to most expensive.

Summary: Lowest Cost Places To Live In St. Louis

If you’re measuring the neighborhoods in St. Louis where prices are low, and it’s cheap to live, this is an accurate list.

The most affordable neighborhoods in St. Louis are Kingsway West, Kingsway East, North Point, Hyde Park, Wells-Goodfellow, Gravois Park, Oarondelet Park, Near North Riverfront, Walnut Park West, and Franz Park.

As mentioned earlier, the neighborhoods in St. Louis aren’t all cheap. Visitation Park takes the title of the most expensive neighborhood to live in St. Louis.

The most expensive neighborhoods in St. Louis are Visitation Park, Kings Oak, Central West End, Cheltenham, and Skinker-Debaliviere.

We ranked the neighborhoods from cheapest to most expensive in the chart below.

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Detailed List Of The Cheapest Neighborhoods To Live In St. Louis For 2025

Rank Neighborhood Cost Of Living Index
1 Kingsway West 76
2 Kingsway East 79
3 North Point 76
4 Hyde Park 73
5 Wells-Goodfellow 76
6 Gravois Park 77
7 Oarondelet Park 91
8 Near North Riverfront 76
9 Walnut Park West 78
10 Franz Park 85
11 College Hill 75
12 Holly Hills 85
13 Mark Twain 76
14 Fairground Neighborhood 75
15 Fairground Park 77
16 Walnut Park East 76
17 Carondelet 81
18 Penrose 79
19 Marine Villa 81
20 Princeton Heights 87
21 Bevo Mill 81
22 Hi-Pointe 86
23 Ellendale 86
24 Tower Grove South 87
25 The Ville 80
26 Clayton-Tamm 87
27 The Greater Ville 78
28 The Gate District 90
29 Lindenwood Park 89
30 Fox Park 88
31 Debaliviere Place 83
32 Dutchtown 80
33 Clifton Heights 86
34 Downtown 83
35 North Hampton 85
36 Boulevard Heights 85
37 Calvary-Bellefontaine Cemetery 77
38 Mount Pleasant 77
39 Hamilton Heights 74
40 Jeffvanderlou 76
41 Baden 80
42 Covenant Blu-Grand Center 83
43 Patch 80
44 Missouri Botanical Garden 91
45 South Hampton 91
46 North Riverfront 75
47 Southwest Garden 85
48 Peabody-Darst-Webbe 90
49 Lewis Place 82
50 Vandeventer 88
51 Tower Grove East 86
52 Benton Park 91
53 Kosciusko 80
54 Shaw 97
55 Saint Louis Hills 99
56 Wydown-Skinker 125
57 Benton Park West 80
58 La Salle 81
59 Academy 84
60 Soulard 95
61 The Hill 89
62 Lafayette Square 97
63 Compton Heights 107
64 Old North Saint Louis 83
65 Botanical Heights 92
66 Mckinley Heights 96
67 Midtown 80
68 Fountain Park 77
69 Saint Louis Place 80
70 West End 89
71 Forest Park Southeast 91
72 Downtown West 93
73 Skinker-Debaliviere 105
74 Cheltenham 90
75 Central West End 106
76 Kings Oak 98
77 Visitation Park 92
About Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar has been in the real estate business for almost ten years now. He originally worked for Movoto Real Estate as the director of marketing before founding HomeSnacks.

He believes the key to finding the right place to live comes down to looking at the data, reading about things to do, and, most importantly, checking it out yourself before you move.

If you've been looking for a place to live in the past several years, you've probably stumbled upon his writing already.

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