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Cassville, MO

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Overview


Cassville is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 3,212 people and just one neighborhood, Cassville is the 195th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Cassville is a blue-collar town, with 35.04% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Cassville is a city of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cassville who work in food service (15.10%), office and administrative support (10.76%), and healthcare (8.55%).

Also of interest is that Cassville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Cassville spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.05 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Cassville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.42% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Cassville in 2018 was $33,468, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $133,872 for a family of four. However, Cassville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.7%) living in the neighborhood.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Cassville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 43.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.1% 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, 33.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.1%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households.

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 Cassville, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.3%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.7%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (53.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (80.1%) 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 (10.5%) . 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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