Puxico is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 861 people and just one neighborhood, Puxico is the 363rd largest community in Missouri.
Puxico is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Puxico is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Puxico who work in teaching (17.66%), management occupations (15.04%), and office and administrative support (11.69%).
Also of interest is that Puxico has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Puxico’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Being a small city, Puxico does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Puxico with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.44% of adults in Puxico have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Puxico in 2022 was $23,027, 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 $92,108 for a family of four. However, Puxico contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Puxico home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Puxico residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Puxico include English, Irish, German, Polish, and British.
The most common language spoken in Puxico is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 18 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.1% of America.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Puxico is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in MO, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 88.7% of the neighborhoods in Missouri. If you are considering retiring to Missouri, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
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 Puxico are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.5% of U.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, 33.1% 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 26.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.6%), and 18.0% 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 99.3% 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 Puxico, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (11.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.6%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 (30.1% 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 (12.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.