Sedgewickville is a tiny village located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 187 people and just one neighborhood, Sedgewickville is the 510th largest community in Missouri.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Sedgewickville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 64.29% of the Sedgewickville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Sedgewickville is a village of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sedgewickville who work in food service (11.22%), office and administrative support (9.18%), and sales jobs (5.10%).
The overall crime rate in Sedgewickville is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
The village 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, Sedgewickville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Sedgewickville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Sedgewickville is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Sedgewickville ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 3.28% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Sedgewickville in 2022 was $31,804, which is upper middle income relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $127,216 for a family of four. However, Sedgewickville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Sedgewickville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sedgewickville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Sedgewickville include German, Irish, English, European, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Sedgewickville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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 Sedgewickville, 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 16 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Significantly, 2.2% 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 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Sedgewickville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 10.1% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 50.5% of America'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, 41.4% 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 28.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.6%), and 14.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.7% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (2.2%).
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 Sedgewickville, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.0%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.9%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (70.5%) 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 (19.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.