Garden City is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,583 people and just one neighborhood, Garden City is the 305th largest community in Missouri.
When you are in Garden City, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.33% of Garden City’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Garden City is a city of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Garden City who work in sales jobs (8.88%), office and administrative support (6.92%), and healthcare suport services (6.81%).
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Garden City has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Garden City has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Garden City than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Garden City may be for you.
One downside of living in Garden City is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Garden City, the average commute to work is 31.75 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Garden City is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Garden City have a very low rate of college education: just 7.99% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Garden City in 2022 was $28,504, which is upper middle income relative to Missouri, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,016 for a family of four. However, Garden City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Garden City is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Garden City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Garden City residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Garden City include German, Irish, English, French, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Garden City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 40 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Garden City are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.9% 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, 33.8% 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 31.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.7%), and 10.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% 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 Garden City, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.1%), and residents who report English roots (11.3%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.5%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (36.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (83.5%) 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 (11.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.