Fast Facts

Fast Facts

• St. Charles County covers 561 square miles of diverse terrain that includes riverbanks, bluffs, forests, and master-planned development.

• St. Charles County is located at the confluence of the “Mighty” Mississippi River and the “Big Muddy” Missouri River, the fourth largest river system in the world.

• St. Charles County is the starting point and the most visited section of the 240-mile Missouri Katy Trail State Park that runs across the state.

• St. Charles County has more than 30,000 acres of state and local public parkland.

• St. Charles County has the second-largest registered historic district in the USA.

• St. Charles County is home to the Weinstrasse or “Missouri Wine Road” which boasts the highest concentration of wineries in the state and was the first American Viticultural Area (AVA) designated by the federal government in 1980.

• St. Charles County was ranked among the top 25 counties in the nation for high-tech growth by the Progressive Policy Institute.

• The prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has named St. Charles County one of Missouri's healthiest counties for 12 consecutive years.

• St. Charles County is home to 8 data centers on the High Tech I-64/Highway 40 Corridor, the largest concentration of IT facilities in metro St. Louis.

• St. Charles County accounts for approximately 40% of all new single-family housing permits issued every year in the St. Louis region.

• St. Charles County has benefited from more than $1 billion of public transportation improvements since 1985, thanks to voters supporting the community’s transportation sales tax that is re-approved every 10 years.