Scott City is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 4,350 people and just one neighborhood, Scott City is the 160th largest community in Missouri.
When you are in Scott City, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.80% of Scott City’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Scott City is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Scott City who work in office and administrative support (18.38%), teaching (12.28%), and sales jobs (8.41%).
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Scott City has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Scott City has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Scott City than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Scott City may be for you.
The percentage of adults in Scott City with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.97% of adults in Scott City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Scott City in 2022 was $27,403, which is middle income relative to Missouri, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $109,612 for a family of four. However, Scott City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Scott City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Scott City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Scott City include German, Irish, English, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Scott City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Scott City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 33.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (24.2%), and 14.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Scott City, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.9%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (12.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.