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Tuscumbia, MO

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Overview


Tuscumbia is a tiny town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 190 people and just one neighborhood, Tuscumbia is the 513th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Tuscumbia isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Tuscumbia are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Tuscumbia is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Tuscumbia who work in office and administrative support (49.06%), teaching (9.43%), and sales jobs (7.55%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Tuscumbia’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Tuscumbia has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Tuscumbia a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Tuscumbia, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 38.21 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

In Tuscumbia, just 8.26% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Tuscumbia in 2018 was $24,486, 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 $97,944 for a family of four. However, Tuscumbia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Tuscumbia is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Tuscumbia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tuscumbia residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Tuscumbia include German, English, Irish, French, and Norwegian.

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

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

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.9%) living in the neighborhood.

In addition, if you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Tuscumbia is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in MO, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 88.9% of the neighborhoods in Missouri. If you are considering retiring to Missouri, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

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 28 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.1% 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 Tuscumbia are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.8% 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 56.4% 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, 30.4% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.0%), and 12.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% 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 Tuscumbia, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report English roots (14.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.6%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 (29.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.8%) 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 (8.2%) . 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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