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Highlandville, MO

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Overview


Highlandville is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 983 people and just one neighborhood, Highlandville is the 358th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Highlandville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Highlandville is a city of managers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Highlandville who work in management occupations (17.55%), sales jobs (10.82%), and office and administrative support (10.34%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Highlandville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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

As is often the case in a small city, Highlandville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Highlandville is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.95% of adults 25 and older in Highlandville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Highlandville in 2022 was $26,691, which is middle income relative to Missouri, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $106,764 for a family of four. However, Highlandville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Highlandville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Highlandville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Highlandville include German, Irish, English, European, and Italian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 89.2% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 95.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

People

The neighborhood stands out within Missouri for its college student friendly environment. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood is home to a number of college students, is relatively walkable, and above average in safety. In combination, this makes it stand out for a good place for college students to consider. Because a number of college students live here, this neighborhood may be close to a college campus and offer certain amenities nearby geared towards the student body. While it's not an environment for everyone, ambitious scholars can enjoy seasonal excitement between semesters and school breaks, and parents can rest easy knowing that the area has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 6.6% of college-friendly places to live in MO. In addition to being an excellent choice for college students, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for families with school-aged children.

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 Highlandville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.8% 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, 34.9% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 33.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.3%), and 13.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households.

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 Highlandville, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (3.6%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 (47.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (89.2%) 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 (6.6%) . 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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