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Wentworth, MO

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Overview


Wentworth is a tiny village located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 99 people and just one neighborhood, Wentworth is the 544th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Wentworth is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.48% of the Wentworth workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Wentworth is a village of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Wentworth who work in teaching (19.35%), office and administrative support (16.13%), and sales jobs (9.68%).

Of important note, Wentworth is also a village of artists. Wentworth has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Wentworth’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

One downside of living in Wentworth, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.71 minutes every day commuting to work.

Wentworth is very much a car-oriented village. This is because the population of Wentworth isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

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

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Wentworth is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.29% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Wentworth in 2022 was $18,185, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $72,740 for a family of four. Wentworth also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.76% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Wentworth home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wentworth residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Wentworth include German, English, Irish, Polish, and Italian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

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 29 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.9% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Wentworth are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 52.8% 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, 36.7% 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 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.5%), and 15.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.6% of households.

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 Wentworth, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (4.1%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 (44.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.4%) 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 (14.9%) . 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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