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Pilot Grove, MO

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Overview


Pilot Grove is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 671 people and just one neighborhood, Pilot Grove is the 390th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Pilot Grove is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Pilot Grove is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pilot Grove who work in sales jobs (16.20%), management occupations (13.08%), and office and administrative support (8.72%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Pilot Grove, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.49 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small city, Pilot Grove does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Pilot Grove is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.74% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Pilot Grove in 2018 was $28,145, which is upper middle income relative to Missouri, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,580 for a family of four. However, Pilot Grove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Pilot Grove is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.

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 96.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 37.9% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.

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 Pilot Grove are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 10.2% 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 50.3% of America'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, 33.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.7%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Pilot Grove, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (27.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (80.8%) 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 (12.9%) . 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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