Urich is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 474 people and just one neighborhood, Urich is the 422nd largest community in Missouri. Much of the housing stock in Urich was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Urich is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.09% of the Urich workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Urich is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Urich who work in sales jobs (13.45%), office and administrative support (12.28%), and food service (8.19%).
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!) Urich 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. Urich has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Urich than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Urich may be for you.
One downside of living in Urich is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Urich, the average commute to work is 30.41 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Urich does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Urich has a very low overall level of education: only 8.12% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Urich in 2022 was $26,925, 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 $107,700 for a family of four. However, Urich contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Urich home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Urich residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Urich include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Urich is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.
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.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Urich are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.8% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 68.5% of America'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, 33.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.0%), and 11.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households.
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 Urich, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.6%), and residents who report English roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.9%) 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 (10.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.