Overall, Sedalia’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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!) Sedalia 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. Sedalia has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sedalia than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sedalia may be for you.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 17.34 minutes getting to work every day.
Sedalia is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Sedalia isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
Sedalia is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Sedalia has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Sedalia in 2022 was $58,031, which is wealthy relative to Colorado and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $232,124 for a family of four.
The people who call Sedalia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sedalia residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Sedalia include German, Scottish, English, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Sedalia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
