Reeds Spring is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,226 people and four associated neighborhoods, Reeds Spring is the 341st largest community in Missouri.Reeds Spring is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Reeds Spring is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Reeds Spring who work in office and administrative support (11.27%), sales jobs (9.15%), and maintenance occupations (8.69%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.38% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. 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!) Reeds Spring 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. Reeds Spring has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Reeds Spring than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Reeds Spring may be for you. Being a small city, Reeds Spring does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The education level of Reeds Spring citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.16% of adults 25 and older in Reeds Spring have a college degree. The per capita income in Reeds Spring in 2022 was $24,882, 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 $99,528 for a family of four. However, Reeds Spring contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Reeds Spring home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Reeds Spring residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Reeds Spring include German, English, Irish, French, and European. The most common language spoken in Reeds Spring is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
