Dittmer is a somewhat small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 5,307 people and just one neighborhood, Dittmer is the 130th largest community in Missouri.
Dittmer is a blue-collar town, with 54.61% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Dittmer is a town of construction workers and builders, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dittmer who work in office and administrative support (9.46%), healthcare (6.42%), and business and financial occupations (5.00%).
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, Dittmer has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Dittmer a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Dittmer, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 39.07 minutes every day commuting to work.
Dittmer is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of people in Dittmer with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.04% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Dittmer in 2018 was $34,225, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $136,900 for a family of four. However, Dittmer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Dittmer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dittmer residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Dittmer include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Dittmer is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 54.6% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.5% of American neighborhoods.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 91.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.0% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 39.6% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Dittmer are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 23.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.2% 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, 54.6% 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 19.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (13.3%), and 12.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Dittmer, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.5%), and residents who report English roots (10.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (7.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.0%), among others.
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 (42.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (91.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
