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Fair Grove, MO

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Overview


Fair Grove is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,599 people and just one neighborhood, Fair Grove is the 311th largest community in Missouri.

Fair Grove real estate is some of the most expensive in Missouri, although Fair Grove house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Fair Grove isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Fair Grove are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Fair Grove is a city of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Fair Grove who work in management occupations (13.55%), office and administrative support (12.49%), and healthcare (8.83%).

A relatively large number of people in Fair Grove telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.45% 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

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

Demographics

The education level of Fair Grove citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 24.47% of adults in Fair Grove have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Fair Grove in 2022 was $34,433, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $137,732 for a family of four. However, Fair Grove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Fair Grove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

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

People

Priests and therapists would like to think they know the secrets to a truly successful marriage, but according to NeighborhoodScout's research, the folks of the neighborhood may actually hold the key. 71.8% of its residents are married, which is a higher percentage than is found in 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Fair Grove are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.4% 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 63.3% 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, 40.2% 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.0%), and 9.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Fair Grove, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.1%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (2.8%), along with some Danish ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.5%) 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 (10.0%) . 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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