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Sarcoxie, MO

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Overview


Sarcoxie is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,388 people and just one neighborhood, Sarcoxie is the 321st largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Sarcoxie, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.41% of Sarcoxie’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Sarcoxie is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sarcoxie who work in office and administrative support (13.01%), maintenance occupations (12.40%), and sales jobs (11.18%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Sarcoxie has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Sarcoxie 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, Sarcoxie doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Sarcoxie has a very low overall level of education: only 6.95% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Sarcoxie in 2022 was $15,380, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $61,520 for a family of four. Sarcoxie also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.22% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Sarcoxie is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Sarcoxie home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sarcoxie residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sarcoxie include Irish, German, French, English, and Scots-Irish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Sarcoxie, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 Sarcoxie are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 30.6% 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 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (27.4%), and 13.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Sarcoxie, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (20.4%), and residents who report English roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 (51.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.4%) 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 (16.9%) . 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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