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!) Seymour 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. Seymour has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Seymour than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Seymour may be for you.
One downside of living in Seymour is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Seymour, the average commute to work is 32.20 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small city, Seymour doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Seymour, just 7.59% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Seymour in 2022 was $22,508, which is lower middle income relative to Missouri, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $90,032 for a family of four. However, Seymour contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Seymour home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Seymour residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Seymour include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Belizean.
The most common language spoken in Seymour is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
