Malta Bend is a tiny town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 188 people and just one neighborhood, Malta Bend is the 516th largest community in Missouri.
When you are in Malta Bend, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.80% of Malta Bend’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Malta Bend is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Malta Bend who work in management occupations (17.28%), food service (11.11%), and office and administrative support (8.64%).
Overall, Malta Bend’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Malta Bend 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. Malta Bend has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Malta Bend than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Malta Bend may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Malta Bend doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Malta Bend are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.29% of adults in Malta Bend have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Malta Bend in 2022 was $25,530, which is middle income relative to Missouri, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,120 for a family of four. However, Malta Bend contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Malta Bend home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Malta Bend residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Malta Bend include German, English, Swedish, Swiss, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Malta Bend is English. Other important languages spoken here include Pacific Island languages and German/Yiddish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Malta Bend, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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.
Of particular note, 2.8% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
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 Malta Bend are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.3% 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 70.3% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 46.9% 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 23.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.5%), and 12.3% 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 99.3% of households.
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 Malta Bend, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.8%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (1.5%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 (44.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.