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East Prairie, MO

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Overview


East Prairie is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 2,896 people and just one neighborhood, East Prairie is the 204th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

East Prairie is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, East Prairie is a city of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in East Prairie who work in sales jobs (15.14%), healthcare suport services (13.18%), and food service (12.40%).

Setting & Lifestyle

East Prairie is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In East Prairie, just 8.74% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in East Prairie in 2018 was $19,728, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $78,912 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in East Prairie is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular East Prairie neighborhood.

In addition, the neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 96.0% of the neighborhoods in the United States.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry.

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 East Prairie are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 96.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 29.3% 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 28.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.9%), and 18.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% 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 East Prairie, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.0%). There are also a number of people of Scottish ancestry (8.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 (39.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (76.2%) 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 (13.3%) and 5.1% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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