Fair Play is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 438 people and just one neighborhood, Fair Play is the 433rd largest community in Missouri.
Fair Play is a blue-collar town, with 36.72% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Fair Play is a city of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fair Play who work in sales jobs (12.43%), healthcare suport services (11.86%), and food service (7.34%).
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Fair Play has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.
The overall crime rate in Fair Play is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Fair Play has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Fair Play a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Fair Play, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.25 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Fair Play is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Fair Play have a very low rate of college education: just 6.27% 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 Fair Play in 2022 was $18,410, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $73,640 for a family of four. Fair Play also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.35% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Fair Play home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fair Play residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Fair Play include German, Irish, Dutch, English, and Danish.
The most common language spoken in Fair Play is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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Significantly, 6.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.3% of the neighborhoods in 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 Fair Play are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 33.0% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 32.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.3%), and 8.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Spanish.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Fair Play, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (17.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.3%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (35.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.0%) 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 (9.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.