Pilot Grove is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 671 people and just one neighborhood, Pilot Grove is the 390th largest community in Missouri.
Pilot Grove is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Pilot Grove is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pilot Grove who work in sales jobs (16.20%), management occupations (13.08%), and office and administrative support (8.72%).
One downside of living in Pilot Grove is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Pilot Grove, the average commute to work is 33.49 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Pilot Grove is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The rate of college-level education in Pilot Grove is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.74% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pilot Grove in 2022 was $28,145, which is upper middle income relative to Missouri, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,580 for a family of four. However, Pilot Grove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Pilot Grove home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pilot Grove residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Pilot Grove include German, Irish, English, Scots-Irish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Pilot Grove is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.
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 Pilot Grove, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 14 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 37.9% of this neighborhood's residents have German 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 Pilot Grove are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 10.2% 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 50.3% 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, 33.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.7%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households.
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 Pilot Grove, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (27.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (80.8%) 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 (12.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.