Amazonia is a tiny village located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 238 people and just one neighborhood, Amazonia is the 484th largest community in Missouri.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Amazonia is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 57.14% of the Amazonia workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Amazonia is a village of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Amazonia who work in office and administrative support (14.29%), personal care services (7.52%), and healthcare (6.02%).
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, Amazonia has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Amazonia a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Amazonia, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.66 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small village, Amazonia does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Amazonia ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 1.55% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Amazonia in 2022 was $31,871, 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 $127,484 for a family of four. However, Amazonia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Amazonia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Amazonia residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Amazonia include German, Irish, Czechoslovakian, Swedish, and Danish.
The most common language spoken in Amazonia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 4.3% have Dutch ancestry.
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 96.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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 Amazonia are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.7% 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 69.2% 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, 36.9% 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 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.6%), and 15.7% 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 99.5% of households.
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 Amazonia, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (4.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 (51.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.1%) 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 (10.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.