Seymour is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,934 people and two associated neighborhoods, Seymour is the 290th largest community in Missouri. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Seymour, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Seymour, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Seymour’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Seymour does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $51,591.00.When you are in Seymour, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.84% of Seymour’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Seymour is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Seymour who work in office and administrative support (10.38%), healthcare suport services (10.38%), and sales jobs (8.42%). Also of interest is that Seymour has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. In Seymour, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.32 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Being a small city, Seymour does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The rate of college-level education in Seymour is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.36% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Seymour in 2022 was $23,573, 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 $94,292 for a family of four. However, Seymour contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Seymour also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.44% of its population below the federal poverty line. The people who call Seymour home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Seymour residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Seymour include German, Swiss, English, Irish, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Seymour is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.
