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Sarcoxie, MO

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Overview


Sarcoxie is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,389 people and just one neighborhood, Sarcoxie is the 321st largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Sarcoxie is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.41% of the Sarcoxie workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Sarcoxie is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sarcoxie who work in office and administrative support (13.01%), maintenance occupations (12.40%), and sales jobs (11.18%).

Also of interest is that Sarcoxie has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Sarcoxie’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 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!) Sarcoxie 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. Sarcoxie has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sarcoxie than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sarcoxie may be for you.

Sarcoxie is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The population of Sarcoxie has a very low overall level of education: only 6.95% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Sarcoxie in 2022 was $15,380, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $61,520 for a family of four. Sarcoxie also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.22% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Sarcoxie is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

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

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 Sarcoxie are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.8% 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, 30.6% 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 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (27.4%), and 13.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Sarcoxie, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (20.4%), and residents who report English roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.4%) 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 (16.9%) . 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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