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Lockwood, MO

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Overview


Lockwood is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 855 people and just one neighborhood, Lockwood is the 365th largest community in Missouri. Lockwood has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lockwood is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 47.56% of the Lockwood workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Lockwood is a city of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lockwood who work in food service (8.44%), sales jobs (8.00%), and healthcare suport services (6.67%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Lockwood spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.57 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.

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

Demographics

In Lockwood, just 12.93% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Lockwood in 2022 was $25,913, 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 $103,652 for a family of four. However, Lockwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 10 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Lockwood are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.4% 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, 38.4% 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 27.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.3%), and 15.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.2%).

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 Lockwood, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report English roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.5%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (82.8%) 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 (9.8%) . 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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