Byrnes Mill is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 3,185 people and just one neighborhood, Byrnes Mill is the 197th largest community in Missouri.
Byrnes Mill real estate is some of the most expensive in Missouri, although Byrnes Mill house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Unlike some cities, Byrnes Mill isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Byrnes Mill are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Byrnes Mill is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Byrnes Mill who work in management occupations (14.12%), office and administrative support (13.07%), and sales jobs (11.71%).
Also of interest is that Byrnes Mill has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Of important note, Byrnes Mill is also a city of artists. Byrnes Mill has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Byrnes Mill’s character.
A relatively large number of people in Byrnes Mill telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 16.24% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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!) Byrnes Mill 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. Byrnes Mill has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Byrnes Mill than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Byrnes Mill may be for you.
One downside of living in Byrnes Mill, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.25 minutes every day commuting to work.
Byrnes Mill 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 population of Byrnes Mill overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Byrnes Mill, 23.65% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Byrnes Mill in 2022 was $40,548, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $162,192 for a family of four. However, Byrnes Mill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Byrnes Mill is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Byrnes Mill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Byrnes Mill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Byrnes Mill include German, English, Irish, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Byrnes Mill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish and Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 5.9% have Scottish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Byrnes Mill are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.3% 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, 47.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 19.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.4%), and 13.6% 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 97.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Byrnes Mill, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (5.9%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (77.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.