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La Belle - Lewistown, MO

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Overview


La Belle - Lewistown is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 2,130 people and just one neighborhood, La Belle - Lewistown is the 262nd largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, La Belle - Lewistown isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in La Belle - Lewistown are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, La Belle - Lewistown is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in La Belle - Lewistown who work in office and administrative support (12.36%), healthcare (8.00%), and management occupations (6.44%).

Setting & Lifestyle

La Belle - Lewistown’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

One downside of living in La Belle - Lewistown, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.42 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small town, La Belle - Lewistown doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of La Belle - Lewistown rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.83% of adults 25 and older in La Belle - Lewistown have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in La Belle - Lewistown in 2018 was $18,702, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $74,808 for a family of four. However, La Belle - Lewistown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in La Belle - Lewistown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 96.8% 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 34.5%, which is higher than 95.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 La Belle - Lewistown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 30.9% 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 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.2%), and 16.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

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 La Belle - Lewistown, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.2%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.3%).

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 (27.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (77.9%) 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 (14.3%) . 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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