Ash Grove - Walnut Grove is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 3,664 people and just one neighborhood, Ash Grove - Walnut Grove is the 181st largest community in Missouri.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Ash Grove - Walnut Grove is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ash Grove - Walnut Grove is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ash Grove - Walnut Grove who work in office and administrative support (17.86%), sales jobs (11.88%), and management occupations (10.53%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.17% 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.
One downside of living in Ash Grove - Walnut Grove is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Ash Grove - Walnut Grove, the average commute to work is 32.79 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Ash Grove - Walnut Grove does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Ash Grove - Walnut Grove who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.87% of the adults in Ash Grove - Walnut Grove have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ash Grove - Walnut Grove in 2022 was $41,450, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $165,800 for a family of four. However, Ash Grove - Walnut Grove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ash Grove - Walnut Grove home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ash Grove - Walnut Grove residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Ash Grove - Walnut Grove include English, German, Irish, Czech, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Ash Grove - Walnut Grove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 20.8% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Japanese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Ash Grove - Walnut Grove are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.6% 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 69.5% of America'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, 30.4% 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 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.1%), and 20.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households.
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 Ash Grove - Walnut Grove, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (20.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (20.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (16.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.9%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.4%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (79.9%) 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 (8.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.