Cairo is a tiny village located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 203 people and just one neighborhood, Cairo is the 502nd largest community in Missouri. Much of the housing stock in Cairo was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Cairo economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Cairo, where the median household income is $57,000.00.
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Cairo is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cairo is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cairo who work in office and administrative support (18.63%), teaching (9.80%), and personal care services (8.82%).
Overall, Cairo’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
It is a fairly quiet village 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!) Cairo 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. Cairo has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cairo than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cairo may be for you.
One of the benefits of Cairo is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.45 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Cairo is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Cairo citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.35% of adults 25 and older in Cairo have a college degree.
The per capita income in Cairo in 2022 was $30,034, which is upper middle income relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $120,136 for a family of four. However, Cairo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Cairo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cairo residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Cairo include English, Dutch, German, Scottish, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Cairo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 94.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Cairo are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.7% 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 59.4% 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, 37.5% 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 29.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.8%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.1%).
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 Cairo, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.8%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.2%) 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 (10.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.