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Linn Creek, MO

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Overview


Linn Creek is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 223 people and just one neighborhood, Linn Creek is the 497th largest community in Missouri.

Linn Creek real estate is some of the most expensive in Missouri, although Linn Creek house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Linn Creek is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Linn Creek is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Linn Creek who work in food service (20.47%), office and administrative support (15.75%), and sales jobs (8.66%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Linn Creek’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Linn Creek has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Linn Creek a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

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

Demographics

The education level of Linn Creek citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.63% of adults in Linn Creek have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Linn Creek in 2022 was $27,009, which is middle income relative to Missouri, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $108,036 for a family of four. However, Linn Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 35.0%, which is higher than 96.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Linn Creek are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 39.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.6% of U.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, 32.9% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (26.6%), and 10.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

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 Linn Creek, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (2.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 (48.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.7%) 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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