Maryville is a small town where college students really create the town feel and character. So many small towns have lost population over the last 20-30 years that having the local college presence in the Maryville area, with all of the energy of the students filling area dorms and apartments each fall, really helps Maryville maintain a good economy.
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 13.07 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small city, Maryville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Maryville are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 35.62% of adults in Maryville have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Maryville in 2022 was $27,215, which is middle income relative to Missouri, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $108,860 for a family of four. However, Maryville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Maryville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Maryville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Maryville include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Maryville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and West Germanic languages.
