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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 an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.

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 (18.39%), office and administrative support (11.26%), and sales jobs (9.19%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The percentage of people in Crane with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.48% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Crane in 2018 was $20,590, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $82,360 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 Native American. Important ancestries of people in Crane include Irish, German, 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

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Crane, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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

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 Crane are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.5% 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, 34.6% 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 32.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.3%), and 11.7% 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

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Crane, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.7%), and residents who report English roots (11.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 (40.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (84.3%) 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 (7.5%) . 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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