Wardell is a tiny town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 292 people and just one neighborhood, Wardell is the 465th largest community in Missouri.
Unlike some towns, Wardell isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Wardell are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Wardell is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wardell who work in management occupations (19.38%), office and administrative support (13.75%), and maintenance occupations (11.88%).
The town 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, Wardell has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Wardell a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Wardell does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Wardell, just 11.68% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Wardell in 2022 was $22,254, 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 $89,016 for a family of four. However, Wardell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Wardell also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 39.34% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Wardell home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wardell residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wardell include Irish, English, German, Scots-Irish, and Romanian.
The most common language spoken in Wardell is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
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.
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 8 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.6% of America.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.4% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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 Wardell are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 40.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.3% 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, 27.7% 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 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.0%), and 18.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.3%).
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 Wardell, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report English roots (6.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.8%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.2%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.9%) 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 (7.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.