Gray Summit is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 3,055 people and just one neighborhood, Gray Summit is the 202nd largest community in Missouri.
Gray Summit real estate is some of the most expensive in Missouri, although Gray Summit house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Gray Summit is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Gray Summit is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gray Summit who work in sales jobs (14.42%), office and administrative support (13.88%), and architecture and engineering (8.31%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 14.33% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Gray Summit 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. Gray Summit has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Gray Summit than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Gray Summit may be for you.
One downside of living in Gray Summit is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Gray Summit, the average commute to work is 32.02 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Gray Summit does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Gray Summit with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.05% of adults in Gray Summit have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Gray Summit in 2022 was $28,493, 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 $113,972 for a family of four. However, Gray Summit contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Gray Summit is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Gray Summit home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gray Summit residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Gray Summit include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Gray Summit is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav ancestry and 34.7% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Portuguese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Gray Summit are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.8% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 68.1% of America'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, 36.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.7%), and 15.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.
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 Gray Summit, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (34.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (22.1%), and residents who report English roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.3%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (87.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.