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Wyaconda, MO

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Overview


Wyaconda is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 214 people and just one neighborhood, Wyaconda is the 498th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Wyaconda, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 53.49% of Wyaconda’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Wyaconda is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Wyaconda who work in office and administrative support (19.77%), farm management occupations (13.95%), and business and financial occupations (5.81%).

In addition, many people in Wyaconda have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Wyaconda 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. Wyaconda has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Wyaconda than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Wyaconda may be for you.

One downside of living in Wyaconda, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 41.19 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small city, Wyaconda does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Wyaconda has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.07% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Wyaconda in 2018 was $34,495, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $137,980 for a family of four. However, Wyaconda contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Wyaconda home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wyaconda residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Wyaconda include German, Irish, English, Scots-Irish, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Wyaconda is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 6 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 33.1%, which is higher than 95.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.6% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

People

If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 10.1% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Missouri. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.4% 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 Wyaconda are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 36.4% 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 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.1%), and 8.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.4% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (6.8%).

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 Wyaconda, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of Swiss ancestry (6.3%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (24.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (72.9%) 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 (8.4%) . 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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