Burlington Junction - Hopkins is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 2,135 people and just one neighborhood, Burlington Junction - Hopkins is the 261st largest community in Missouri. Burlington Junction - Hopkins has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Burlington Junction - Hopkins is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.43% of the Burlington Junction - Hopkins workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Burlington Junction - Hopkins is a town of managers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Burlington Junction - Hopkins who work in management occupations (16.04%), office and administrative support (9.29%), and healthcare (7.22%).
Being a small town, Burlington Junction - Hopkins does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Burlington Junction - Hopkins rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.07% of adults 25 and older in Burlington Junction - Hopkins have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Burlington Junction - Hopkins in 2022 was $34,776, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $139,104 for a family of four. However, Burlington Junction - Hopkins contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Burlington Junction - Hopkins home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Burlington Junction - Hopkins residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Burlington Junction - Hopkins include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Burlington Junction - Hopkins is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 10 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.1% of 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 Burlington Junction - Hopkins are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.6% of U.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, 37.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 36.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (11.9%), and 11.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Burlington Junction - Hopkins, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.9%).
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.9%) 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 (11.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.