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Barnhart, MO

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Overview


Barnhart is a somewhat small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 5,832 people and just one neighborhood, Barnhart is the 122nd largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Barnhart isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Barnhart are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Barnhart is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Barnhart who work in office and administrative support (13.33%), healthcare (9.81%), and business and financial occupations (8.80%).

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

A relatively large number of people in Barnhart telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.63% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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

One downside of living in Barnhart is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Barnhart, the average commute to work is 32.84 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The education level of Barnhart citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.31% of adults in Barnhart have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Barnhart in 2022 was $43,220, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $172,880 for a family of four. However, Barnhart contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Some neighborhoods are made up of apartments. Some consist of row houses, and most - by far - consist of a mixture of housing types. But the neighborhood stands out due to the total dominance of detached, single-family homes here. There are nearly no other types of residential real estate in the neighborhood. In fact, this neighborhood has a higher proportion of single-family homes in its real estate stock than 97.4% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 37.8% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 1.0% have Croatian 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 Barnhart are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 69.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.4% 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 63.3% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 42.4% 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 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.3%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Barnhart, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (22.7%), and residents who report Italian roots (10.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (5.4%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (80.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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