About Ladue

Ladue is a somewhat small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 8,673 people and just one neighborhood, Ladue is the 96th largest community in Missouri.

Ladue is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 97.20% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Ladue is a city of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ladue who work in management occupations (25.83%), sales jobs (18.42%), and healthcare (11.79%).

Of important note, Ladue is also a city of artists. Ladue has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Ladue's character.

A relatively large number of people in Ladue telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.16% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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 addition, Ladue is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Because of many things, Ladue is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Ladue a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The city's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Ladue has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Ladue's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.92 minutes getting to work every day.

Ladue is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Ladue 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. 98.18% 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 city, Ladue does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Ladue Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Ladue, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Ladue is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 71.84% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Ladue in 2000 was $89,623, which is wealthy relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $358,492 for a family of four. However, Ladue contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Ladue home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Ladue is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Ladue include German, English, Irish, French, Italian, Russian, European, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Ladue is English.