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 QUALITY OF LIFE  

 

 

Cost of Living Indices

 

Lebanon

National

Overall

87.0

100.00

Housing

71.7

100.00

Food and Groceries

91.4

100.00

Transportation

99.7

100.00

Utilities

85.2

100.00

Health Care

98.0

100.00

Miscellaneous

96.6

100.00

Housing Median Value

$80,700*

$134,100*

 

 

 

*2000 Data

Source: MSN / Sperling’s Best Places

 

 

Housing

 

                                                   2003                    2004

Average Home Price               $87,249               $96,148

Median Home Price                 $77,000               $85,000

 

Source: Lebanon Board of Realtors

 

 Health Care

 

St. John's Hospital - Lebanon 

Constructed 1999, one expansion, one planned

Physicians 62

Rooms 33 Surgical

            10 Obstetrics

              4 Intensive Care

              2 Sleep

            49 Total (1.5 beds/1,000)

Planned expansion will include a new emergency room, new patient rooms, and an Oncology center.

Estimated cost of the expansion is $6.8 million.

Source: St. John’s Regional Medical Center

 

 

Climate

 

Lebanon / Laclede County

National Average

Comfort Index 

23

35

Altitude

1,268

770

Rainfall

42.0

34.5

Snowfall

18.0

23.8

Precipitation Days

109

108

Sunny Days 

214

214

Days Warmer than 90 degrees 

42

34

Days Colder then 32 degrees 

102

82

Average Temperature—July

89.0

86.0

Average Temperature—Jan.

22.0

27.2

Average Wind Speed 

10

9

Air Quality Rating*

98.3

87.9

Waste Quality Rating*

100.0

50.0

*100=Best

Source: MSN / Sperling’s Best Places

 

 

 

Public Safety

 

Lebanon Laclede County

Number, Full Time Police Officers 37 8

Number, Vehicles 20 8

 

Lebanon Fire Department

Personnel, Full Time 17

Stations 2

Vehicles 8

Insurance Rating 4

 

Community Facilities

 

Number of Hotels and Motels 15

Capacity at Largest Banquet Room 2,500

Number of Churches in Lebanon 50

Number of Shopping Centers 7

Number of Public Libraries 1

 

Recreation Facilities within 10 Miles

 

Public Swimming Pools 2 (1 indoor)

Public Tennis Courts 5 (1 indoor)

Public Parks 10 (207 Acres Total)

Golf Courses 4

Bennett Spring State Park is located 12 miles Northeast of Lebanon. The park is the most visited park in Missouri with approximately 1 million visitors. The park encompasses 3,099 acres around Bennett Spring with an average flow of 100,000,000 gallons per day.

Bennett Spring is one of the State’s four trout parks. The park has a hatchery and produces both rainbow and brown trout for stocking in the stream below the Spring. Other facilities include a nature interpretative center, reception center, dining lodge, swimming pool, cabins, campground, picnic area, and hiking trails.

 

Civic Facilities

 

 

Kenneth B. Cowan Civic Center

Exhibition Hall with 4,000 capacity

Meeting rooms with kitchen facilities

Olympic - size indoor swimming pool

Multi - purpose courts

Family fitness center

Route 66 Museum

Lebanon - Laclede County Library

 

Special Events

 

Opening Day of Trout Season, (March 1 each year)

Hillbilly Days, (Father’s Day weekend each year)

Enchanted Christmas, (after Thanksgiving)

Art on the Farm, (Spring)

St. John’s Hospital “Fantasy Gala”, (Spring)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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