Steele - Cooter is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 2,476 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. 43.14% 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 production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Steele - Cooter who work in sales jobs (9.95%), management occupations (9.27%), and office and administrative support (9.04%).
Also of interest is that Steele - Cooter has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Steele - Cooter telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.01% 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.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Steele - Cooter rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.30% of adults 25 and older in Steele - Cooter have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Steele - Cooter in 2022 was $29,498, which is upper middle income relative to Missouri, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $117,992 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 Spanish 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.
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 5.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 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 82.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 40.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.1% 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, 37.2% 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 24.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.6%), and 11.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Steele - Cooter, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (15.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.9%), and residents who report German roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.0%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (1.1%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (49.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.1%) 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 (9.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.