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. Much of the housing stock in Asbury was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Asbury economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Asbury, where the median household income is .
Asbury is a blue-collar town, with 36.80% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. 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.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.33% 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 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, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.63 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small city, Asbury does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
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.
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 Asbury, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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.
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, 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%).
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 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.