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Sweet Springs, MO

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Overview


Sweet Springs is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,294 people and just one neighborhood, Sweet Springs is the 327th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Sweet Springs isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Sweet Springs are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sweet Springs is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sweet Springs who work in food service (16.67%), sales jobs (12.14%), and management occupations (9.60%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Sweet Springs’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Sweet Springs is worth considering.

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

Demographics

The population of Sweet Springs has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.98% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Sweet Springs in 2018 was $22,812, which is lower middle income relative to Missouri, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $91,248 for a family of four. However, Sweet Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Sweet Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Russian.

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 Sweet Springs, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 34.0% of this neighborhood's residents have German 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 Sweet Springs are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.3% 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 52.4% 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, 33.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.7%), and 11.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Sweet Springs, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (34.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report English roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (70.0%) 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 (17.7%) . 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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