Truxton is a tiny village located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 67 people and just one neighborhood, Truxton is the 551st largest community in Missouri.
Truxton real estate is some of the most expensive in Missouri, although Truxton house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
When you are in Truxton, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 43.75% of Truxton’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Truxton is a village of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Truxton who work in food service (25.00%), teaching (18.75%), and management occupations (12.50%).
Overall, Truxton’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Residents will find that the village is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Truxton is worth considering.
One downside of living in Truxton is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Truxton, the average commute to work is 33.75 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small village, Truxton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Truxton are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.67% of adults in Truxton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Truxton in 2022 was $23,331, which is lower middle income relative to Missouri, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $93,324 for a family of four. However, Truxton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Truxton also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.29% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Truxton is a very ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Truxton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Truxton residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Truxton include Irish, Greek, German, English, and Eastern European.
The most common language spoken in Truxton is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
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 Truxton, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 31 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.6% of America.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 9.2% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Missouri. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
Significantly, 1.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek 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 Truxton are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 75.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.8% 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 75.4% 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, 39.7% 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 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.2%), and 9.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.4%).
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 Truxton, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.2%), and residents who report Italian roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.5%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 (35.6% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (80.0%) 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 (11.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.