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Crane, MO

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Overview


Crane is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,512 people and just one neighborhood, Crane is the 317th largest community in Missouri. Crane has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Crane is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Crane is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Crane who work in healthcare suport services (19.26%), sales jobs (10.60%), and office and administrative support (9.89%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Crane is worth considering.

One downside of living in Crane is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Crane, the average commute to work is 30.92 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

In Crane, just 10.84% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Crane in 2018 was $19,747, 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 $78,988 for a family of four. However, Crane contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Crane are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 35.4% 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 30.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (23.5%), and 9.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% 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 Crane, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.1%), and residents who report English roots (11.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.8%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (44.5% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (83.9%) 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 (8.1%) . 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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