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.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 16 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. 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.
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 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.
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, 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.