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Pomona, MO

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Overview


Pomona is a tiny town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 440 people and just one neighborhood, Pomona is the 428th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Pomona, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 78.26% of Pomona’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Pomona is a town of transportation and shipping workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pomona who work in maintenance occupations (11.96%), office and administrative support (9.78%), and sales jobs (0.00%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Pomona 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. Pomona has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pomona than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pomona may be for you.

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

Demographics

The population of Pomona has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Pomona in 2018 was $13,505, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $54,020 for a family of four. Pomona also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.89% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Pomona is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pomona home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pomona residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Pomona include Irish, German, European, Scottish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Pomona is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 33.8% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.4% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 22 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.4% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Ukrainian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Ukrainian ancestry and 7.3% have French ancestry.

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 Pomona are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.9% 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 56.3% 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, 34.8% 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 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.2%), and 14.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% 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 Pomona, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.7%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (7.3%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (7.2%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (55.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.5%) 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 (8.6%) . 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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