Sunset Hills is a somewhat small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 8,148 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Sunset Hills is the 104th largest community in Missouri.

Sunset Hills is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 88.40% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Sunset Hills is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sunset Hills who work in management occupations (16.61%), sales jobs (16.15%), and office and administrative support jobs (13.67%).

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

In addition, Sunset Hills is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. "Urban sophisticates" is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call 'urbaneness.' But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.

Sunset Hills is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Sunset Hills 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. 97.25% 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, Sunset Hills does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Sunset Hills Information and Demographics

The education level of Sunset Hills citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 38.81% of adults in Sunset Hills have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Sunset Hills in 2000 was $40,151, which is wealthy relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $160,604 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Sunset Hills is English.