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Gray Summit, MO

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Overview


Gray Summit is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 3,055 people and just one neighborhood, Gray Summit is the 202nd largest community in Missouri.

Gray Summit real estate is some of the most expensive in Missouri, although Gray Summit house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Gray Summit is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.65% of the Gray Summit workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Gray Summit is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Gray Summit who work in office and administrative support (14.52%), sales jobs (11.19%), and architecture and engineering (9.02%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Gray Summit is worth considering.

In Gray Summit, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.28 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Gray Summit doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Gray Summit with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.09% of adults in Gray Summit have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Gray Summit in 2022 was $28,679, 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 $114,716 for a family of four. However, Gray Summit contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Gray Summit is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Gray Summit home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gray Summit residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Gray Summit include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.

The most common language spoken in Gray Summit is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Gray Summit, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.0% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.6% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian and Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry and 0.7% have Yugoslav ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Portuguese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Gray Summit are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.8% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 56.5% of America'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, 37.8% 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 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.6%), and 16.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Gray Summit, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (35.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (19.7%), and residents who report English roots (11.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.0%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (32.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (88.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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