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Stewartsville - Union Star, MO

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Overview


Stewartsville - Union Star is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 3,837 people and just one neighborhood, Stewartsville - Union Star is the 177th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Stewartsville - Union Star is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.17% of the Stewartsville - Union Star workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Stewartsville - Union Star is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Stewartsville - Union Star who work in management occupations (15.47%), office and administrative support (9.70%), and sales jobs (7.95%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.35% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Stewartsville - Union Star is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Stewartsville - Union Star’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Being a small town, Stewartsville - Union Star does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Stewartsville - Union Star who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.27% of the adults in Stewartsville - Union Star have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Stewartsville - Union Star in 2018 was $30,210, which is upper middle income relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $120,840 for a family of four. However, Stewartsville - Union Star contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Stewartsville - Union Star home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Stewartsville - Union Star residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Stewartsville - Union Star include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Stewartsville - Union Star is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.2% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 18 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

People

If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 14.6% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Missouri. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.

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 Stewartsville - Union Star are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 52.0% 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, 35.9% 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 31.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.2%), and 10.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% 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 Stewartsville - Union Star, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.9%), and residents who report English roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.3%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.4%) 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 (8.2%) . 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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