Strafford is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 2,643 people and just one neighborhood, Strafford is the 234th largest community in Missouri.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Strafford is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Strafford is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Strafford who work in sales jobs (10.81%), office and administrative support (10.55%), and healthcare (9.09%).
As is often the case in a small city, Strafford doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Strafford who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.28% of the adults in Strafford have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Strafford in 2022 was $25,455, 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 $101,820 for a family of four. However, Strafford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Strafford home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Strafford residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Strafford include German, English, European, Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Strafford is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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 Strafford are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.4% 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, 33.0% 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 32.0% 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 17.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.0%).
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 Strafford, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.5%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 (53.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.0%) 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 (5.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.