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Purdy, MO

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Overview


Purdy is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,043 people and just one neighborhood, Purdy is the 347th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Purdy is a blue-collar town, with 54.98% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Purdy is a city of transportation and shipping workers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Purdy who work in office and administrative support (12.95%), management occupations (7.97%), and food service (5.38%).

Also of interest is that Purdy has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Purdy ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.44% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Purdy in 2018 was $16,225, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $64,900 for a family of four. Purdy also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 38.19% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Purdy is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Purdy home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Purdy residents report their race to be White. Purdy also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.80% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Purdy include German, Irish, English, Italian, and European.

The most common language spoken in Purdy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Purdy, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 3.8% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Furthermore, with 1.5% of employed workers living in the neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 95.2% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.

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 91.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.4% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.6% 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 Purdy are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.4% 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, 37.6% 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 35.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.3%), and 9.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

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 88.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian and Polish.

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 Purdy, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (22.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (17.2%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (11.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.1%), 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 (47.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (69.2%) 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 (16.7%) . 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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