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Chaffee, MO

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Overview


Chaffee is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 3,029 people and just one neighborhood, Chaffee is the 201st largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Chaffee is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Chaffee is a city of managers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Chaffee who work in business and financial occupations (12.21%), sales jobs (10.73%), and healthcare (8.22%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Chaffee who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.51% of the adults in Chaffee have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Chaffee in 2018 was $25,044, 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 $100,176 for a family of four.

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

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

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.

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 Chaffee are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 2.1% 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 74.9% of America'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, 36.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.8%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% 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 Chaffee, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.1%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 (38.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.0%) 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 (16.0%) . 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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