New Florence is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 641 people and just one neighborhood, New Florence is the 395th largest community in Missouri.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, New Florence is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.79% of the New Florence workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, New Florence is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Florence who work in office and administrative support (20.36%), maintenance occupations (9.64%), and sales jobs (7.86%).
Also of interest is that New Florence has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, New Florence is worth considering.
As is often the case in a small city, New Florence doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of New Florence are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.27% of adults in New Florence have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in New Florence in 2022 was $24,283, 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 $97,132 for a family of four.
The people who call New Florence home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Florence residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in New Florence include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in New Florence is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 35.7%, which is higher than 96.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, 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 14 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.1% of America.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 3.8% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 38.4% have German ancestry.
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 New Florence are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.3% 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, 39.4% 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 20.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.9%), and 17.3% 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 (4.2%).
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 New Florence, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (38.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.9%), and residents who report English roots (12.8%), and some of the residents are also of Welsh ancestry (2.9%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.9%) 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 (5.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.