Dutchtown is a tiny town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 163 people and just one neighborhood, Dutchtown is the 523rd largest community in Missouri.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Dutchtown is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 58.91% of the Dutchtown workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Dutchtown is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dutchtown who work in sales jobs (27.13%), management occupations (13.18%), and maintenance occupations (0.78%).
Overall, Dutchtown’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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, Dutchtown has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Dutchtown a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Dutchtown does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Dutchtown, just 7.59% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Dutchtown in 2022 was $34,673, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $138,692 for a family of four. However, Dutchtown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Dutchtown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dutchtown residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Dutchtown include German, European, English, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Dutchtown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Other Asian languages and Russian.
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.
If you are planning to retire in Missouri, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Missouri, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 97.7% of neighborhoods in MO. If a Missouri retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.
Our research reveals that 90.0% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.9% of this neighborhood's residents have British 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 Dutchtown are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.0% 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 61.0% of America'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, 37.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 22.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.2%), and 19.2% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households.
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 Dutchtown, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.0%), along with some British ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 (43.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (90.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.