El Dorado Springs is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 3,584 people and just one neighborhood, El Dorado Springs is the 187th largest community in Missouri.
Unlike some cities, El Dorado Springs isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in El Dorado Springs are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, El Dorado Springs is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in El Dorado Springs who work in healthcare (12.01%), management occupations (11.59%), and sales jobs (11.31%).
The rate of college-level education in El Dorado Springs is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.07% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in El Dorado Springs in 2022 was $20,209, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,836 for a family of four. El Dorado Springs also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.11% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call El Dorado Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of El Dorado Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in El Dorado Springs include English, Irish, German, Italian, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in El Dorado Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 58.7% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
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 El Dorado Springs are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.3% 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, 37.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.9%), and 16.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in El Dorado Springs, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report German roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.4%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (58.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.8%) 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 (9.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.