Orrick is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 739 people and just one neighborhood, Orrick is the 375th largest community in Missouri.
Orrick is a blue-collar town, with 48.26% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Orrick is a city of transportation and shipping workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Orrick who work in healthcare (8.72%), sales jobs (7.56%), and teaching (6.69%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.36% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
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!) Orrick 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. Orrick has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Orrick than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Orrick may be for you.
As is often the case in a small city, Orrick doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The rate of college-level education in Orrick is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.33% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Orrick in 2022 was $27,673, 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 $110,692 for a family of four. However, Orrick contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Orrick home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Orrick residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Orrick include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Orrick is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Other Asian languages.
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.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 3.1% have Scots-Irish ancestry.
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 Orrick are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.1% 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, 46.1% 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 25.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.0%), and 13.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households.
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 Orrick, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.5%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.2%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (29.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (88.2%) 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 (7.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.