About Sibley

Sibley is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,428 people and just one neighborhood, Sibley is the 324th largest community in Missouri.

When you are in Sibley, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.7% of Sibley's employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 24.7% that do. Overall, Sibley is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sibley who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.20%), sales jobs (10.75%), and management occupations (6.05%).

Because of many things, Sibley 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, Sibley really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Sibley 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.

Sibley is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Sibley, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.74% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

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

Sibley Information and Demographics

In Sibley, just 11.40% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Sibley in 2000 was $18,577, which is upper middle income relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $74,308 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Sibley is English.