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Hawk Point, MO

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Overview


Hawk Point is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 736 people and just one neighborhood, Hawk Point is the 386th largest community in Missouri.

Hawk Point real estate is some of the most expensive in Missouri, although Hawk Point house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Hawk Point, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.21% of Hawk Point’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Hawk Point is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Hawk Point who work in office and administrative support (15.12%), food service (11.63%), and management occupations (8.72%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Hawk Point’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

One downside of living in Hawk Point is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Hawk Point, the average commute to work is 32.00 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small city, Hawk Point doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In Hawk Point, just 10.67% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Hawk Point in 2022 was $16,970, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $67,880 for a family of four. Hawk Point also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 42.09% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Hawk Point is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Hawk Point home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hawk Point residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Hawk Point include German, Irish, English, French, and Hungarian.

The most common language spoken in Hawk Point is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

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

People

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 95.6% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

Real Estate

One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

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 Hawk Point are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 26.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.3% 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, 35.6% 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 32.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.0%), and 13.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households.

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 Hawk Point, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.8%), and residents who report English roots (3.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.8%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (88.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (5.1%) . 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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