Leeton is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 532 people and just one neighborhood, Leeton is the 409th largest community in Missouri. Much of the housing stock in Leeton was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
When you are in Leeton, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 43.53% of Leeton’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Leeton is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Leeton who work in office and administrative support (12.23%), sales jobs (11.87%), and food service (7.91%).
Being a small city, Leeton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Leeton has a very low overall level of education: only 8.18% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Leeton in 2022 was $19,396, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,584 for a family of four. However, Leeton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Leeton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Leeton residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Leeton include German, Irish, Scots-Irish, English, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Leeton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.
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 Leeton, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 17 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.3% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian 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 Leeton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.4% 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, 35.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.8%), and 11.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% 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 Leeton, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.1%), and residents who report English roots (11.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.7%), along with some Mexican 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.6%) 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 (9.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.