Steele - Cooter is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 2,435 people and just one neighborhood, Steele - Cooter is the 228th largest community in Missouri.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Steele - Cooter is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.85% of the Steele - Cooter workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Steele - Cooter is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Steele - Cooter who work in sales jobs (13.94%), teaching (12.22%), and management occupations (10.27%).
A relatively large number of people in Steele - Cooter telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.90% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
The education level of Steele - Cooter citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.14% of adults 25 and older in Steele - Cooter have a college degree.
The per capita income in Steele - Cooter in 2022 was $34,364, which is upper middle income relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $137,456 for a family of four. However, Steele - Cooter contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Steele - Cooter is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Steele - Cooter home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Steele - Cooter residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Steele - Cooter include Irish, English, German, French, and Scandinavian.
The most common language spoken in Steele - Cooter is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Steele - Cooter, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 6.8% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.2% of 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 Steele - Cooter are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.4% 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, 33.0% 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 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.3%), and 10.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Steele - Cooter, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report German roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.4%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 (49.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (73.0%) 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 (15.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.