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Adrian, MO

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Overview


Adrian is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,744 people and just one neighborhood, Adrian is the 299th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Adrian, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.16% of Adrian’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Adrian is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Adrian who work in sales jobs (13.85%), office and administrative support (9.66%), and management occupations (7.10%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.64% 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

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Adrian has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Adrian has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Adrian than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Adrian may be for you.

One downside of living in Adrian is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Adrian, the average commute to work is 32.14 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Demographics

The citizens of Adrian are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.93% of adults in Adrian have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Adrian in 2022 was $25,021, 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 $100,084 for a family of four. However, Adrian contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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.

Car Ownership

Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 35.5% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.4% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

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 18 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.2% of 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 Adrian are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.4% 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, 33.1% 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 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.5%), and 18.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.7%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Adrian, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (18.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.2%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (28.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (78.1%) 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 (5.3%) . 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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