Spickard is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 225 people and just one neighborhood, Spickard is the 491st largest community in Missouri.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Spickard is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.47% of the Spickard workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Spickard is a city of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Spickard who work in maintenance occupations (20.00%), sales jobs (10.59%), and healthcare suport services (8.24%).
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Spickard has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.
Spickard’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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!) Spickard 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. Spickard has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Spickard than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Spickard may be for you.
As is often the case in a small city, Spickard doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Spickard has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.98% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Spickard in 2022 was $25,443, 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 $101,772 for a family of four. However, Spickard contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Spickard home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Spickard residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Spickard include German, Irish, Dutch, English, and European.
The most common language spoken in Spickard is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Vietnamese.
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.
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 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 96.0% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Significantly, 12.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Spickard are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.2% 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, 32.5% 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.5%), and 10.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 86.4% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (12.8%).
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 Spickard, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (11.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.1%).
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 (36.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (73.0%) 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 (11.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.