Cardwell - Arbyrd is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,557 people and just one neighborhood, Cardwell - Arbyrd is the 306th largest community in Missouri.
Cardwell - Arbyrd is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Cardwell - Arbyrd is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cardwell - Arbyrd who work in sales jobs (27.65%), farm management occupations (9.57%), and food service (7.99%).
In addition, many people in Cardwell - Arbyrd have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.
As is often the case in a small town, Cardwell - Arbyrd doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Cardwell - Arbyrd, just 8.52% 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 Cardwell - Arbyrd in 2022 was $21,828, 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 $87,312 for a family of four. However, Cardwell - Arbyrd contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Cardwell - Arbyrd also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.52% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Cardwell - Arbyrd is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cardwell - Arbyrd home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cardwell - Arbyrd residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Cardwell - Arbyrd also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.63% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Cardwell - Arbyrd include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Cardwell - Arbyrd is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 98.9% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Furthermore, there are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (59.8%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
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 93.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch 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 Cardwell - Arbyrd are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 39.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.6% 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, 40.2% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 22.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (14.7%), and 13.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (12.7%).
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 Cardwell - Arbyrd, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.1%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (15.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (15.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.4%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (4.0%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (87.9%) 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 (8.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.