Niangua is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 408 people and just one neighborhood, Niangua is the 443rd largest community in Missouri.
Niangua real estate is some of the most expensive in Missouri, although Niangua house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
When you are in Niangua, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.11% of Niangua’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Niangua is a city of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Niangua who work in food service (12.78%), healthcare suport services (12.03%), and maintenance occupations (11.28%).
The overall crime rate in Niangua is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
As is often the case in a small city, Niangua doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Niangua has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 3.93% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Niangua in 2022 was $14,443, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $57,772 for a family of four. However, Niangua contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Niangua also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 40.37% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Niangua home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Niangua residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Niangua include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Niangua is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (27.8%) than in 98.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 33 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Significantly, 0.9% 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 96.1% 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 Niangua are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.3% 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 51.7% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 33.5% 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 29.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.5%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% 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 Niangua, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (64.8%) 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 (27.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.