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Hardin, MO

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Overview


Hardin is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 562 people and just one neighborhood, Hardin is the largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Hardin isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Hardin are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Hardin is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hardin who work in office and administrative support (15.76%), sales jobs (12.32%), and computer science and math (9.46%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Hardin is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

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!) Hardin 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. Hardin has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hardin than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hardin may be for you.

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Hardin with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.19% of adults in Hardin have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Hardin in 2022 was $23,471, which is lower middle income relative to Missouri, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $93,884 for a family of four. However, Hardin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Hardin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hardin residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Hardin include German, Irish, English, Welsh, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Hardin 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 Hardin, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 11 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.1%) living in the neighborhood.

In addition, with a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 89.1% of the neighborhoods in MO. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.5% 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 Hardin are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.9% 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 manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.8%), and 11.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.2% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (3.6%).

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 Hardin, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (12.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report English roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of Swiss ancestry (3.5%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 (40.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (76.9%) 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 (11.1%) . 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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