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Owensville, MO

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Overview


Owensville is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 2,806 people and just one neighborhood, Owensville is the 222nd largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Owensville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.74% of the Owensville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Owensville is a city of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Owensville who work in teaching (9.48%), healthcare suport services (7.93%), and food service (7.38%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Owensville who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.19% of the adults in Owensville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Owensville in 2018 was $21,088, which is lower middle income relative to Missouri, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $84,352 for a family of four. However, Owensville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Owensville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Owensville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Owensville include German, English, Irish, French, and Welsh.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 Owensville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 40.6% 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 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.3%), and 13.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Polish and Spanish.

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 Owensville, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 (49.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (82.5%) 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 (12.7%) . 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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