Mansfield - Norwood is a somewhat small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 5,555 people and just one neighborhood, Mansfield - Norwood is the 132nd largest community in Missouri.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Mansfield - Norwood is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.22% of the Mansfield - Norwood workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Mansfield - Norwood is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Mansfield - Norwood who work in office and administrative support (10.31%), sales jobs (9.95%), and healthcare (8.97%).
A relatively large number of people in Mansfield - Norwood telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.27% 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.
Being a small town, Mansfield - Norwood does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Mansfield - Norwood rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.43% of adults 25 and older in Mansfield - Norwood have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Mansfield - Norwood in 2022 was $26,033, 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 $104,132 for a family of four. However, Mansfield - Norwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Mansfield - Norwood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mansfield - Norwood residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mansfield - Norwood include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Mansfield - Norwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Slavic languages.
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 Mansfield - Norwood, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 40 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Significantly, 2.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Mansfield - Norwood are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.4% 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, 33.0% 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 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.0%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (2.8%).
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 Mansfield - Norwood, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.3%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (74.1%) 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 (15.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.