About Sedalia

Sedalia is a very small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 1,571 people and just one neighborhood, Sedalia is the 208th largest community in Kentucky.

Sedalia is a blue-collar town, with 37.5% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Sedalia is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sedalia who work in office and administrative support jobs (15.89%), sales jobs (10.35%), and food service (7.87%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their homes - 8.25% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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 Sedalia, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.43 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Sedalia is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Sedalia isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.88% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Being a small town, Sedalia does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Sedalia Information and Demographics

The population of Sedalia has a very low overall level of education: only 9.06% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Sedalia in 2000 was $14,343, which is middle income relative to Kentucky, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $57,372 for a family of four.

The people who call Sedalia home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Sedalia is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sedalia include Irish, English, German, European, and Scotch-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Sedalia is English.