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Spickard, MO

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Overview


Spickard is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 223 people and just one neighborhood, Spickard is the 491st largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Spickard is a blue-collar town, with 36.36% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Spickard is a city of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Spickard who work in maintenance occupations (15.58%), food service (14.29%), and sales jobs (6.49%).

And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Spickard has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Spickard 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.

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

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Spickard ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 3.81% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Spickard in 2022 was $19,512, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $78,048 for a family of four. Spickard also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 36.14% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Spickard is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Scandinavian languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

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 11 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Significantly, 15.5% 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 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Spickard are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.2% 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, 32.8% 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 29.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.9%), and 9.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 84.3% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (15.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Spickard, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.2%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (1.2%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (68.4%) 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 (13.2%) and 5.3% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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