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Sparta, MO

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Overview


Sparta is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,938 people and just one neighborhood, Sparta is the 285th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Sparta is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.13% of the Sparta workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Sparta is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sparta who work in office and administrative support (19.63%), sales jobs (7.24%), and teaching (5.41%).

Setting & Lifestyle

In Sparta, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 36.98 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Sparta is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The population of Sparta has a very low overall level of education: only 8.17% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Sparta in 2018 was $25,934, 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 $103,736 for a family of four. However, Sparta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Sparta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Other Indo-European.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

People

Priests and therapists would like to think they know the secrets to a truly successful marriage, but according to NeighborhoodScout's research, the folks of the neighborhood may actually hold the key. 72.7% of its residents are married, which is a higher percentage than is found in 98.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Sparta are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.8% 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.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 39.6% 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 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.4%), and 15.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.2%).

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 Sparta, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (17.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 (35.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (87.9%) 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 (6.9%) . 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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