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New Franklin, MO

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Overview


New Franklin is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,017 people and just one neighborhood, New Franklin is the 348th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, New Franklin isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in New Franklin are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, New Franklin is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Franklin who work in sales jobs (10.66%), food service (9.98%), and office and administrative support (9.52%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

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

Demographics

The population of New Franklin overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in New Franklin, 22.39% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in New Franklin in 2022 was $29,344, which is upper middle income relative to Missouri, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $117,376 for a family of four. However, New Franklin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in New Franklin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

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.

People

If you are planning to retire in Missouri, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Missouri, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 95.9% of neighborhoods in MO. If a Missouri retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.

Real Estate

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 95.7% of America.

The Neighbors

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 New Franklin are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 68.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 21.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.2% 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, 36.3% 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 30.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.5%), and 11.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 New Franklin, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (1.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 (37.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

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 (16.8%) . 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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