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Wyaconda, MO

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Overview


Wyaconda is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 214 people and just one neighborhood, Wyaconda is the 498th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Wyaconda is a blue-collar town, with 53.49% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Wyaconda is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Wyaconda who work in office and administrative support (19.77%), farm management occupations (13.95%), and business and financial occupations (5.81%).

Another important characteristic of Wyaconda is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.

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

One downside of living in Wyaconda is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Wyaconda, the average commute to work is 41.19 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The population of Wyaconda has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.07% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Wyaconda in 2022 was $34,495, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $137,980 for a family of four. However, Wyaconda contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Wyaconda home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wyaconda residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Wyaconda include German, Irish, English, Scots-Irish, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Wyaconda is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

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 97.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 33.1%, which is higher than 95.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 3.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 9.9% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Missouri. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.4% of the neighborhoods in 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 Wyaconda are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.6% 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, 36.4% 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 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.1%), and 8.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.4% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (6.8%).

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 Wyaconda, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of Swiss ancestry (6.3%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (24.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (72.9%) 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 (8.4%) . 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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