Oran - Morley is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 2,567 people and just one neighborhood, Oran - Morley is the 233rd largest community in Missouri.
Oran - Morley is a blue-collar town, with 39.48% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Oran - Morley is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oran - Morley who work in management occupations (11.49%), office and administrative support (11.03%), and food service (8.79%).
Being a small town, Oran - Morley does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Oran - Morley is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.85% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Oran - Morley in 2022 was $27,831, 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 $111,324 for a family of four. However, Oran - Morley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Oran - Morley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oran - Morley residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Oran - Morley include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and French.
The most common language spoken in Oran - Morley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
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 Oran - Morley are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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In the neighborhood, 37.7% 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 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.7%), and 15.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Oran - Morley, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report English roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (3.2%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 (38.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.2%) 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 (12.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.