Asbury is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 191 people and just one neighborhood, Asbury is the 509th largest community in Missouri. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Asbury, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Asbury, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Asbury’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Asbury does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is .
When you are in Asbury, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.80% of Asbury’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Asbury is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Asbury who work in office and administrative support (34.40%), maintenance occupations (5.20%), and management occupations (4.40%).
Also of interest is that Asbury has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Asbury telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.33% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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 overall crime rate in Asbury is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
One downside of living in Asbury is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Asbury, the average commute to work is 35.63 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small city, Asbury doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Asbury overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Asbury, 24.25% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Asbury in 2022 was $22,491, 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 $89,964 for a family of four. However, Asbury contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Asbury home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Asbury residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Asbury include German, Scandinavian, English, Irish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Asbury is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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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 37 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.5% of America.
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 Asbury are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.6% 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 51.0% 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, 35.3% 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 32.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.3%), and 11.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.1%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Asbury, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.2%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.9%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.1%) 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 (9.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.