Noel - Southwest City is a somewhat small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 6,363 people and just one neighborhood, Noel - Southwest City is the 116th largest community in Missouri.
Noel - Southwest City is a blue-collar town, with 63.49% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Noel - Southwest City is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Noel - Southwest City who work in office and administrative support (6.96%), management occupations (6.61%), and maintenance occupations (5.21%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.30% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Noel - Southwest City is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In Noel - Southwest City, just 8.36% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Noel - Southwest City in 2022 was $21,617, 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 $86,468 for a family of four. However, Noel - Southwest City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Noel - Southwest City is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Noel - Southwest City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Noel - Southwest City residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Noel - Southwest City also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 25.94% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Noel - Southwest City include German, Somalian, Irish, French, and English.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Noel - Southwest City's cultural character, accounting for 22.67% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Noel - Southwest City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
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 Noel - Southwest City, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 62.2% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.9% of American neighborhoods.
Significantly, 1.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Noel - Southwest City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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In the neighborhood, 62.2% 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 15.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.4%), and 7.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 70.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
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 Noel - Southwest City, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (21.3%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (6.3%), and residents who report German roots (5.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.9%), among others. In addition, 22.7% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (43.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (70.5%) 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 (17.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.