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Wellington, MO

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Overview


Wellington is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 746 people and just one neighborhood, Wellington is the 377th largest community in Missouri. Wellington has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.

Wellington real estate is some of the most expensive in Missouri, although Wellington house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Wellington is a blue-collar town, with 44.39% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Wellington is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wellington who work in sales jobs (13.27%), office and administrative support (9.69%), and teaching (9.69%).

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

One downside of living in Wellington is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Wellington, the average commute to work is 31.18 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Wellington 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.

Demographics

The citizens of Wellington have a very low rate of college education: just 7.28% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Wellington in 2022 was $33,243, which is upper middle income relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $132,972 for a family of four. However, Wellington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Wellington is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Serbo-Croatian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Wellington neighborhood.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 40 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Wellington are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 21.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.3% 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, 37.9% 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 31.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.1%), and 11.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Polish and Spanish.

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 Wellington, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.7%), and residents who report English roots (10.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (4.8%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (35.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.3%) 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 (8.5%) . 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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