Smithton is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 506 people and just one neighborhood, Smithton is the 416th largest community in Missouri.
When you are in Smithton, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.58% of Smithton’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Smithton is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Smithton who work in office and administrative support (11.99%), management occupations (11.24%), and teaching (8.61%).
Also of interest is that Smithton has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Smithton is a small city, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Smithton, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.75% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Smithton 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.
The citizens of Smithton have a very low rate of college education: just 9.48% 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 Smithton in 2022 was $28,031, 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 $112,124 for a family of four. However, Smithton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Smithton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Smithton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Smithton include German, English, Irish, Welsh, and European.
The most common language spoken in Smithton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 95.6% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Ukrainian and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Ukrainian ancestry and 0.6% have Belgian ancestry.
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 Smithton are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 39.3% 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 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 (17.5%), and 11.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.5% 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 Smithton, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Ukrainian ancestry (5.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 (52.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.7%) 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 (9.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.