Puxico is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 861 people and just one neighborhood, Puxico is the 363rd largest community in Missouri.
Unlike some cities, Puxico isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Puxico are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Puxico is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Puxico who work in management occupations (14.95%), teaching (14.69%), and office and administrative support (12.89%).
Also of interest is that Puxico has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The overall crime rate in Puxico 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.
Puxico 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.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Puxico rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.77% of adults 25 and older in Puxico 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 Puxico in 2022 was $24,983, which is lower middle income relative to Missouri, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $99,932 for a family of four. However, Puxico contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Puxico home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Puxico residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Puxico include English, Irish, German, Dutch, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Puxico is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish 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.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Puxico is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in MO, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 87.2% of the neighborhoods in Missouri. If you are considering retiring to Missouri, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
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 Puxico are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.9% 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, 33.2% 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 27.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.4%), and 17.4% 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 99.5% 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 Puxico, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.2%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.2%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (85.1%) 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 (12.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.