Leadwood is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,167 people and just one neighborhood, Leadwood is the 338th largest community in Missouri. Much of the housing stock in Leadwood was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
Unlike some cities, Leadwood isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Leadwood are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Leadwood is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Leadwood who work in management occupations (13.58%), office and administrative support (11.09%), and healthcare (8.60%).
In Leadwood, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.62 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Leadwood does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Leadwood rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.45% of adults 25 and older in Leadwood have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Leadwood in 2022 was $18,614, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $74,456 for a family of four. However, Leadwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Leadwood also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 40.22% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Leadwood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Leadwood residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Leadwood include Irish, German, English, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Leadwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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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 Leadwood are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 37.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.9% 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, 37.7% 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 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.8%), and 14.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.0%).
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 Leadwood, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.5%), and residents who report English roots (10.2%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 (35.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.3%) 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 (16.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.