Exeter is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 741 people and just one neighborhood, Exeter is the 380th largest community in Missouri.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Exeter is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 45.26% of the Exeter workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Exeter is a city of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Exeter who work in sales jobs (11.61%), office and administrative support (7.11%), and teaching (6.40%).
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Exeter has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Exeter has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Exeter than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Exeter may be for you.
Being a small city, Exeter does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Exeter have a very low rate of college education: just 9.22% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Exeter in 2022 was $20,975, which is lower middle income relative to Missouri, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $83,900 for a family of four. However, Exeter contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Exeter home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Exeter residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Exeter include English, Irish, German, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Exeter is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
The neighborhood is unique for having just 7.0% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.1% of America's neighborhoods.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 41.5% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.0% of American neighborhoods.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 45 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.1% of America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Exeter are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 41.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 20.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.7%), and 17.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.5%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Exeter, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (9.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report English roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (7.0%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (5.1%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (10.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.