Senath is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,541 people and just one neighborhood, Senath is the 310th largest community in Missouri.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Senath is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 46.28% of the Senath workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Senath is a city of sales and office workers, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Senath who work in farm management occupations (18.22%), sales jobs (10.59%), and healthcare suport services (10.22%).
You will also find that a lot of people in Senath work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.
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!) Senath 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. Senath has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Senath than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Senath may be for you.
The citizens of Senath have a very low rate of college education: just 9.11% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Senath in 2022 was $18,920, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $75,680 for a family of four. However, Senath contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Senath is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Senath home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Senath residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Senath also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 46.09% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Senath include Irish, German, English, Dutch, and French.
Senath also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 19.91%.
The most common language spoken in Senath 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.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.4% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 34 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Senath are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.5% 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, 30.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 20.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.1%), and 16.9% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 66.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (34.0%).
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 Senath, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (40.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.9%), and residents who report German roots (8.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.2%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.6%), among others. In addition, 15.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (40.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (72.8%) 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 (20.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.