Stewartsville - Union Star is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 3,837 people and just one neighborhood, Stewartsville - Union Star is the 177th largest community in Missouri.
When you are in Stewartsville - Union Star, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.17% of Stewartsville - Union Star’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Stewartsville - Union Star is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Stewartsville - Union Star who work in management occupations (15.47%), office and administrative support (9.70%), and sales jobs (7.95%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.35% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Because of many things, Stewartsville - Union Star is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Stewartsville - Union Star a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Stewartsville - Union Star has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Stewartsville - Union Star’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
Being a small town, Stewartsville - Union Star does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Stewartsville - Union Star is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.27% of adults 25 and older in Stewartsville - Union Star have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Stewartsville - Union Star in 2022 was $30,210, 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 $120,840 for a family of four. However, Stewartsville - Union Star contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Stewartsville - Union Star home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Stewartsville - Union Star residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Stewartsville - Union Star include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Stewartsville - Union Star is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.4% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 18 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.2% of America.
If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 13.4% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Missouri. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.
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 Stewartsville - Union Star are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 52.0% 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, 35.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.2%), and 10.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households.
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 Stewartsville - Union Star, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.9%), and residents who report English roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.3%), along with some Polish 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 (41.8% 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 (8.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.