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Ash Grove - Walnut Grove, MO

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Overview


Ash Grove - Walnut Grove is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 3,664 people and just one neighborhood, Ash Grove - Walnut Grove is the 181st largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Ash Grove - Walnut Grove isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Ash Grove - Walnut Grove are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ash Grove - Walnut Grove is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ash Grove - Walnut Grove who work in office and administrative support (17.86%), sales jobs (11.88%), and management occupations (10.53%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.17% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Ash Grove - Walnut Grove, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.79 minutes every day commuting to work.

Ash Grove - Walnut Grove is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Ash Grove - Walnut Grove who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.87% of the adults in Ash Grove - Walnut Grove have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Ash Grove - Walnut Grove in 2018 was $41,450, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $165,800 for a family of four. However, Ash Grove - Walnut Grove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Ash Grove - Walnut Grove home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ash Grove - Walnut Grove residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Ash Grove - Walnut Grove include English, German, Irish, Czech, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Ash Grove - Walnut Grove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Ash Grove - Walnut Grove, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 20.8% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Japanese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Ash Grove - Walnut Grove are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.6% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 69.5% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 30.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.1%), and 20.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Ash Grove - Walnut Grove, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (20.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (20.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (16.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.9%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (79.9%) 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 (8.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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