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Green City - Greencastle, MO

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Overview


Green City - Greencastle is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,829 people and just one neighborhood, Green City - Greencastle is the 284th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Green City - Greencastle is a blue-collar town, with 43.76% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Green City - Greencastle is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Green City - Greencastle who work in management occupations (8.22%), office and administrative support (6.46%), and healthcare (6.02%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.51% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Green City - Greencastle has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Green City - Greencastle a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Green City - Greencastle 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.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Green City - Greencastle with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.15% of adults in Green City - Greencastle have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Green City - Greencastle in 2018 was $25,241, 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 $100,964 for a family of four. However, Green City - Greencastle contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Green City - Greencastle home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Green City - Greencastle residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Green City - Greencastle include German, English, Irish, Swiss, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Green City - Greencastle is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Japanese.

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.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 97.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 37.3%, which is higher than 97.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Haitian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 1.5% have Haitian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Japanese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.1% 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 Green City - Greencastle are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 41.1% 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 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.7%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.9%).

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 Green City - Greencastle, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of Swiss ancestry (2.4%), along with some Mexican 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (73.0%) 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 (18.9%) . 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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