Slater is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,802 people and just one neighborhood, Slater is the 291st largest community in Missouri.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Slater is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 47.27% of the Slater workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Slater is a city of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Slater who work in sales jobs (10.72%), office and administrative support (8.04%), and maintenance occupations (7.40%).
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!) Slater 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. Slater has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Slater than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Slater may be for you.
One of the benefits of Slater is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.29 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small city, Slater does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Slater is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.50% of adults 25 and older in Slater have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Slater in 2022 was $23,369, 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 $93,476 for a family of four. However, Slater contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Slater is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Slater home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Slater residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Slater include German, English, Irish, Jamaican, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Slater 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 5.2% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 28 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.1% of America.
Significantly, 0.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Persian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Slater are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 91.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.8% 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, 39.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.4%), and 8.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Slater, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.7%), and residents who report English roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (7.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (53.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.9%) 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 (7.3%) and 6.5% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.