Saint Peters is a larger medium-sized town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 68,741 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Saint Peters is the eighth largest community in Missouri.

Saint Peters is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Saint Peters is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Saint Peters who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.70%), sales jobs (12.98%), and management occupations (9.14%).

Also of interest is that Saint Peters has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Because of many things, Saint Peters is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Saint Peters really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Saint Peters perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

"If you live in Saint Peters, you are going to have to drive to get to work," say area residents. At least that is what most Saint Peters residents do (98.5%). Saint Peters is primarily built for cars, and driving around town will bare this out. Shopping centers, parking lots, strip malls, and wide streets are what you'll find. Sidewalks? Sure. But not everywhere, and walking to most places can be downright scary.

Saint Peters is a decent-sized town, yet no one gets to work using public transit, because the town has no real transit system.

Saint Peters Information and Demographics

The education level of Saint Peters citizens is substantially higher than the average US city or town, as 26.82% of adults in Saint Peters have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Saint Peters in 2000 was $22,548, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $90,192 for a family of four. However, Saint Peters contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Saint Peters is English.