Lockwood is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 856 people and just one neighborhood, Lockwood is the 365th largest community in Missouri.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lockwood is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.74% of the Lockwood workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Lockwood is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lockwood who work in food service (11.86%), sales jobs (8.47%), and healthcare suport services (8.47%).
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Lockwood has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lockwood a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small city, Lockwood doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Lockwood with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.12% of adults in Lockwood have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lockwood in 2022 was $27,540, which is middle income relative to Missouri, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,160 for a family of four. However, Lockwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Lockwood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lockwood residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Lockwood include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Lockwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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 10 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.0% of America.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.0% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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 Lockwood are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.2% 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 52.1% 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, 35.6% 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 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.7%), and 14.1% 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 98.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.2%).
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 Lockwood, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report English roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (86.4%) 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 (8.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.