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La Belle - Lewistown, MO

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Overview


La Belle - Lewistown is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 2,130 people and just one neighborhood, La Belle - Lewistown is the 262nd largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, La Belle - Lewistown isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in La Belle - Lewistown are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, La Belle - Lewistown is a town of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in La Belle - Lewistown who work in healthcare (10.12%), office and administrative support (9.65%), and management occupations (9.53%).

Setting & Lifestyle

La Belle - Lewistown’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

As is often the case in a small town, La Belle - Lewistown doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of people in La Belle - Lewistown with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.99% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in La Belle - Lewistown in 2022 was $18,045, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $72,180 for a family of four. However, La Belle - Lewistown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call La Belle - Lewistown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of La Belle - Lewistown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in La Belle - Lewistown include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Romanian.

The most common language spoken in La Belle - Lewistown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

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 La Belle - Lewistown, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 36.9% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.

In addition, 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 11 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.8% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Romanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Romanian ancestry.

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 La Belle - Lewistown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.9% 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, 34.1% 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 30.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.0%), and 12.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 La Belle - Lewistown, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.3%).

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (73.7%) 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 (21.3%) . 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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