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Hume, MO

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Overview


Hume is a tiny town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 280 people and just one neighborhood, Hume is the 470th largest community in Missouri. Hume has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Hume is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.13% of the Hume workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Hume is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hume who work in sales jobs (13.77%), office and administrative support (12.32%), and healthcare (7.25%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Hume’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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, Hume has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Hume a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Hume, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 41.96 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small town, Hume does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

Hume ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.64% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Hume in 2018 was $23,106, which is lower middle income relative to Missouri, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $92,424 for a family of four. However, Hume contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Hume also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.32% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Hume is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

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.

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 12 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.7% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.5% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.4% 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 98.4% 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 Hume are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 32.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.5% 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, 41.3% 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 21.5% 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 13.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.5% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (3.4%).

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 Hume, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (21.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.3%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.3%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 (37.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (75.4%) 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 (13.7%) . 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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