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Sedgewickville, MO

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Overview


Sedgewickville is a tiny village located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 187 people and just one neighborhood, Sedgewickville is the 510th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Sedgewickville is a blue-collar town, with 64.29% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Sedgewickville is a village of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sedgewickville who work in food service (11.22%), office and administrative support (9.18%), and sales jobs (5.10%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Sedgewickville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Sedgewickville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Sedgewickville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sedgewickville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sedgewickville may be for you.

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

Demographics

Sedgewickville ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 3.28% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Sedgewickville in 2018 was $31,804, which is upper middle income relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $127,216 for a family of four. However, Sedgewickville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Sedgewickville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sedgewickville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Sedgewickville include German, Irish, English, European, and Yugoslavian.

The most common language spoken in Sedgewickville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.

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 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America. 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.

Diversity

Significantly, 2.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.8% 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 Sedgewickville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 10.1% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 50.5% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 41.4% 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 28.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.6%), and 14.7% 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 97.7% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (2.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Sedgewickville, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.0%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (70.5%) 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 (19.9%) . 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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