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Humansville, MO

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Overview


Humansville is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 936 people and just one neighborhood, Humansville is the 362nd largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Humansville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 48.13% of the Humansville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Humansville is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Humansville who work in sales jobs (9.80%), healthcare suport services (8.07%), and office and administrative support (5.76%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Humansville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Humansville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Humansville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Humansville may be for you.

One downside of living in Humansville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.70 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small city, Humansville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In Humansville, just 7.75% 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 Humansville in 2022 was $20,478, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $81,912 for a family of four. However, Humansville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Humansville is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Humansville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Humansville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Humansville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.63% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Humansville include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Humansville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Humansville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

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 40 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.9% of America.

Diversity

Significantly, 3.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Humansville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.7% of U.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, 38.1% 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 23.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.0%), and 17.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (3.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Humansville, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (11.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report German roots (11.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (87.3%) 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 (10.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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