Sedgewickville is a tiny village located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 187 people and just one neighborhood, Sedgewickville is the 510th largest community in Missouri.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Sedgewickville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 64.29% of the Sedgewickville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Sedgewickville is a village of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sedgewickville who work in food service (11.22%), office and administrative support (9.18%), and sales jobs (5.10%).
Sedgewickville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
It is a fairly quiet village 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!) Sedgewickville 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. Sedgewickville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sedgewickville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sedgewickville may be for you.
Being a small village, Sedgewickville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Sedgewickville ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 3.28% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Sedgewickville in 2022 was $31,804, which is upper middle income relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $127,216 for a family of four. However, Sedgewickville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Sedgewickville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sedgewickville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Sedgewickville include German, Irish, English, European, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Sedgewickville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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.
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 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.5% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Significantly, 2.2% 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 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Sedgewickville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 10.1% 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 50.5% of America'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, 41.4% 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 28.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.6%), and 14.7% 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 97.7% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (2.2%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Sedgewickville, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.0%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 (37.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (70.5%) 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 (19.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.