Seneca is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 2,284 people and just one neighborhood, Seneca is the 254th largest community in Missouri.
Unlike some cities, Seneca isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Seneca are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Seneca is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Seneca who work in personal care services (16.23%), food service (11.93%), and office and administrative support (10.50%).
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!) Seneca 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. Seneca has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Seneca than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Seneca may be for you.
Being a small city, Seneca does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Seneca with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.94% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Seneca in 2022 was $21,245, 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 $84,980 for a family of four. However, Seneca contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Seneca is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Seneca home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Seneca residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Seneca include German, English, Irish, Dutch, and French.
The most common language spoken in Seneca is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
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 Seneca are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 35.6% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.9%), and 12.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.5% 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 Seneca, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (14.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report English roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (4.1%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 (35.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (72.4%) 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 (20.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.