Tower Grove
Tower Grove is where St. Louis stops pretending it is a Midwestern hub city and admits it would rather be Austin's quieter cousin. The park anchors everything: a Victorian green space ringed by Bosnian bakeries, queer-friendly bars on South Grand, and Craftsman bungalows priced for people who still want a yard. Daters here skew creative-class, lightly tattooed, and allergic to the West County dinner-and-a-movie script. Tradeoffs are real: walkability outside the South Grand corridor thins fast, and the dating pool tilts coupled by thirty. But for a first date that ends at Mangia, it is the city's most forgiving zip code.
Tower Grove by the numbers
Tower Grove is roughly balanced, about 51% men to 49% women.
Median individual income in Tower Grove is about $39,400.
Missouri doesn’t register by party; by the 2024 presidential vote St. Louis County leaned Democratic, about 61% Harris to 37% Trump (the independent City of St. Louis is even bluer).
The median renter in Tower Grove pays about $930 a month.
About 10,600 Tower Grove residents ages 22 to 50 are single.
Local date spots
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Ices Plain & Fancy
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MoKaBe's Coffeehouse
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City Park Grill
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Songbird
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The Royale Food & Spirits
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Hartford Coffee Company
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Crafted
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Tower Pub
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LA CRAZY Margarita
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Tick Tock Tavern
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CBGB
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TeeRak Thai Restaurant
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Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea
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Miniature Museum of Greater St. Louis
Wheelchair access