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Oran - Morley, MO

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Overview


Oran - Morley is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 2,567 people and just one neighborhood, Oran - Morley is the 233rd largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Oran - Morley is a blue-collar town, with 39.60% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Oran - Morley is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oran - Morley who work in office and administrative support (10.53%), management occupations (10.40%), and healthcare (9.64%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

In Oran - Morley, just 11.97% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Oran - Morley in 2018 was $25,401, 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 $101,604 for a family of four. However, Oran - Morley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Oran - Morley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

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.

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 Oran - Morley are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.2% of U.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, 37.8% 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 26.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.0%), and 14.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households.

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 Oran - Morley, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report English roots (4.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.2%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.9%) 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 (15.0%) . 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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