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Tipton, MO

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Overview


Tipton is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 2,686 people and just one neighborhood, Tipton is the 206th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Tipton isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Tipton are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Tipton is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Tipton who work in office and administrative support (13.01%), teaching (11.13%), and food service (8.05%).

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

A relatively large number of people in Tipton telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.25% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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

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

Demographics

The population of Tipton has a very low overall level of education: only 7.30% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Tipton in 2018 was $14,123, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $56,492 for a family of four. However, Tipton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Tipton is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tipton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tipton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Tipton include German, English, Irish, Polish, and Italian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.1% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry.

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 Tipton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 36.3% 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 34.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.5%), and 13.0% 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 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.2%).

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 Tipton, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.1%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (80.1%) 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 (8.1%) . 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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