Alma - Corder is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 3,557 people and just one neighborhood, Alma - Corder is the 185th largest community in Missouri. Alma - Corder has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns, Alma - Corder isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Alma - Corder are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Alma - Corder is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Alma - Corder who work in office and administrative support (10.82%), healthcare (10.76%), and sales jobs (9.04%).
Of important note, Alma - Corder is also a town of artists. Alma - Corder has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Alma - Corder’s character.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.63% 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.
The citizens of Alma - Corder are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.21% of adults in Alma - Corder having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Alma - Corder in 2022 was $34,083, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $136,332 for a family of four. However, Alma - Corder contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Alma - Corder is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Alma - Corder home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Alma - Corder residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Alma - Corder include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Alma - Corder is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Tagalog.
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.
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 25 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.6% of 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 Alma - Corder are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 52.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 35.4% 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 33.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.8%), and 13.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households. Some people also speak Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region) (2.1%).
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 Alma - Corder, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.9%), and residents who report English roots (6.0%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (5.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.1%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.9%) 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 (7.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.