Silver Creek is a suburban area in the city of Joplin, Missouri, United States. Silver Creek real estate is mostly comprised of single-family homes ranging in size from medium (three or four bedrooms) to small (studio to two bedrooms), as well as apartment complexes and high-rise apartments. The vast majority of residential real estate is owned and occupied by the property’s owner. While the majority of the homes in the Silver Creek neighborhood are established, they are not necessarily old, having been constructed between 1970 and 1999. A handful of residences have also been constructed between the years 2000 and the present.
In Silver Creek, the vacancy rate for single-family homes and apartments is 9.4 percent. As a result, this percentage is lower than the national average of 47.0 percent, placing it around in the center of the range for vacancy rates.
The Silver Creek area has more people of Native American and Dutch descent residing there than perhaps any other community in the United States. In actuality, Native American ancestry is represented by 3.1 percent of the neighborhood’s people, and Dutch ancestry is represented by 3.6 percent.
Residents of the Silver Creek area in Joplin are primarily middle-class, hence classifying the community as a moderate-income neighborhood. It is estimated that this community has a greater income than 56.0 percent of all neighborhoods in the United States. With 19.7 percent of the children in this neighborhood living below the federal poverty line, this community has a greater rate of childhood poverty than 63.2 percent of all neighborhoods in the United States overall.
Approximately 42.7 percent of the working population in the Silver Creek area is employed in executive, managerial, and professional occupations. Sales and service positions, ranging from major sales accounts to working in fast food restaurants, are the second most important occupational group in this neighborhood, with 25.1 percent of the population employed in this field. Other residents are working in administrative, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.7 percent), and manufacturing and laborer sectors account for 13.4 percent of total employment.
The majority of households in the Silver Creek area speak English as their first language, which accounts for 95.3 percent of all households. Some folks are also fluent in Polish (2.4 percent ).
Residents of the Silver Creek area of Joplin, Missouri, who identify as German by ethnicity or heritage are the most numerous in the city (14.8 percent ). Other ethnic groups represented in the city include Irish (11.4 percent), English (8.1 percent), and Dutch (3.6 percent), as well as Native American (3.1 percent) and other ancestors from across the world.