Sarcoxie is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,389 people and just one neighborhood, Sarcoxie is the 321st largest community in Missouri.
Sarcoxie is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Sarcoxie is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sarcoxie who work in office and administrative support (17.21%), sales jobs (12.30%), and maintenance occupations (10.25%).
Overall, Sarcoxie’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Sarcoxie is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Sarcoxie ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.80% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Sarcoxie in 2022 was $16,696, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $66,784 for a family of four. However, Sarcoxie contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Sarcoxie home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sarcoxie residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Sarcoxie include Irish, German, English, French, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Sarcoxie is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.1% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.4% of all American neighborhoods.
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 Sarcoxie are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 33.5% 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.9%), and 13.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.3%).
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 Sarcoxie, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.4%), and residents who report English roots (11.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.2%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (89.1%) 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 (9.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.