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Missouri Valley, IA

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Overview


Missouri Valley is a very small city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,677 people and just one neighborhood, Missouri Valley is the 200th largest community in Iowa. Missouri Valley has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Missouri Valley is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Missouri Valley is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Missouri Valley who work in office and administrative support (13.18%), sales jobs (13.10%), and food service (8.81%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Missouri Valley with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.05% of adults in Missouri Valley have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Missouri Valley in 2022 was $29,302, which is low income relative to Iowa, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $117,208 for a family of four. However, Missouri Valley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Missouri Valley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Missouri Valley residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Missouri Valley include German, Irish, English, Italian, and European.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 34.1% have German ancestry.

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 Missouri Valley are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.7% 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 59.4% 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, 30.8% 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 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.0%), and 15.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.1%).

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 Missouri Valley, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (34.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.4%), and residents who report English roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.5%), along with some Danish ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (78.0%) 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 (9.3%) and 6.0% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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