Fair Play is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 450 people and just one neighborhood, Fair Play is the 433rd largest community in Missouri.
Fair Play is a blue-collar town, with 36.57% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Fair Play is a city of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Fair Play who work in sales jobs (12.00%), healthcare suport services (9.71%), and food service (8.57%).
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Fair Play has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.
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!) Fair Play 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. Fair Play has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fair Play than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fair Play may be for you.
One downside of living in Fair Play is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Fair Play, the average commute to work is 30.38 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Fair Play is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In Fair Play, just 6.86% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Fair Play in 2022 was $21,363, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,452 for a family of four.
The people who call Fair Play home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fair Play residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Fair Play include German, Irish, Dutch, English, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Fair Play is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.1% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Fair Play are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 33.6% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 32.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.7%), and 11.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.5% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (4.1%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Fair Play, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (22.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.6%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.6%) 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 (8.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.