Cassville is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 3,230 people and just one neighborhood, Cassville is the 195th largest community in Missouri.
When you are in Cassville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.04% of Cassville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Cassville is a city of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cassville who work in food service (15.10%), office and administrative support (10.76%), and healthcare (8.55%).
Also of interest is that Cassville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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!) Cassville 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. Cassville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cassville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cassville may be for you.
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.05 minutes getting to work every day.
The percentage of people in Cassville with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.42% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cassville in 2022 was $33,468, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $133,872 for a family of four. However, Cassville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Cassville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cassville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cassville include German, English, Irish, French, and European.
The most common language spoken in Cassville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Chinese.
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.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.7%) living in the neighborhood.
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 Cassville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 43.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.1% 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, 33.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.1%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Cassville, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.3%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.7%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 (53.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.1%) 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.