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Winona - Birch Tree, MO

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Overview


Winona - Birch Tree is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 4,252 people and just one neighborhood, Winona - Birch Tree is the 168th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Winona - Birch Tree, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.90% of Winona - Birch Tree’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Winona - Birch Tree is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Winona - Birch Tree who work in office and administrative support (10.52%), maintenance occupations (7.07%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (6.95%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.38% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Winona - Birch Tree is worth considering.

Being a small town, Winona - Birch Tree does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Winona - Birch Tree with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.76% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Winona - Birch Tree in 2022 was $22,323, 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 $89,292 for a family of four. However, Winona - Birch Tree contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Winona - Birch Tree home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Winona - Birch Tree residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Winona - Birch Tree include German, Irish, French, English, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Winona - Birch Tree is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 5.3% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 13 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.1% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry.

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 Winona - Birch Tree are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.7% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 59.4% of America'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, 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 23.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.0%), and 14.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% 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 Winona - Birch Tree, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.4%), and residents who report French roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (70.5%) 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 (19.6%) . 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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