Deepwater - Montrose is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 2,992 people and just one neighborhood, Deepwater - Montrose is the 208th largest community in Missouri.
Deepwater - Montrose is a blue-collar town, with 37.36% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Deepwater - Montrose is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Deepwater - Montrose who work in management occupations (14.15%), office and administrative support (10.57%), and teaching (8.21%).
A relatively large number of people in Deepwater - Montrose telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.28% 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.
One downside of living in Deepwater - Montrose is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Deepwater - Montrose, the average commute to work is 31.06 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Deepwater - Montrose does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Deepwater - Montrose is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.15% of adults 25 and older in Deepwater - Montrose have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Deepwater - Montrose in 2022 was $30,618, 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 $122,472 for a family of four. However, Deepwater - Montrose contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Deepwater - Montrose home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Deepwater - Montrose residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Deepwater - Montrose include German, Irish, English, French, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Deepwater - Montrose is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Deepwater - Montrose, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 13 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.5% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
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 Deepwater - Montrose are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.1% 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, 34.3% 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 32.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.8%), and 13.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.4%).
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 Deepwater - Montrose, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.1%), and residents who report English roots (11.7%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.6%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.1%), among others.
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 (33.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
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 (11.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.