Hawk Point is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 761 people and just one neighborhood, Hawk Point is the 386th largest community in Missouri.
When you are in Hawk Point, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.33% of Hawk Point’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Hawk Point is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hawk Point who work in office and administrative support (15.75%), food service (10.27%), and sales jobs (8.90%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.62% 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.
The overall crime rate in Hawk Point is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
In Hawk Point, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.87 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small city, Hawk Point doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of people in Hawk Point with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.71% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Hawk Point in 2022 was $21,411, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,644 for a family of four. However, Hawk Point contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Hawk Point also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.83% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Hawk Point is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Hawk Point home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hawk Point residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Hawk Point include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Hungarian.
The most common language spoken in Hawk Point is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 Hawk Point, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 Hawk Point are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.6% 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, 36.8% 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.0%), and 17.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households.
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 Hawk Point, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report English roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (4.2%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.7%), among others.
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 (46.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.3%) 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 (7.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.