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West Alton - Portage Des Sioux is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 2,079 people and just one neighborhood, West Alton - Portage Des Sioux is the 272nd largest community in Missouri.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, West Alton - Portage Des Sioux is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.14% of the West Alton - Portage Des Sioux workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, West Alton - Portage Des Sioux is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in West Alton - Portage Des Sioux who work in management occupations (10.15%), maintenance occupations (8.87%), and office and administrative support (8.70%).
Setting & Lifestyle
The town 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, West Alton - Portage Des Sioux has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes West Alton - Portage Des Sioux a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, West Alton - Portage Des Sioux does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
In terms of college education, the citizens of West Alton - Portage Des Sioux rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.20% of adults 25 and older in West Alton - Portage Des Sioux have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in West Alton - Portage Des Sioux in 2022 was $40,054, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $160,216 for a family of four. However, West Alton - Portage Des Sioux contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call West Alton - Portage Des Sioux home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of West Alton - Portage Des Sioux residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in West Alton - Portage Des Sioux include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in West Alton - Portage Des Sioux is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and German/Yiddish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
Modes of Transportation
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 88.3% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.2% of all American neighborhoods.
Real Estate
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 19 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
People
If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 13.5% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Missouri. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.
Diversity
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, 53.8% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.
The Neighbors
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 West Alton - Portage Des Sioux are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 64.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.6% 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 53.4% of America'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, 37.9% 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 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.9%), and 11.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.8%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 West Alton - Portage Des Sioux, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (53.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (20.8%), and residents who report English roots (4.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.0%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 (35.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.3%) 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 (6.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
