Marble Hill is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,375 people and just one neighborhood, Marble Hill is the 322nd largest community in Missouri.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Marble Hill is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 45.31% of the Marble Hill workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Marble Hill is a city of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Marble Hill who work in maintenance occupations (10.94%), office and administrative support (9.52%), and sales jobs (8.24%).
One downside of living in Marble Hill is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Marble Hill, the average commute to work is 33.37 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The population of Marble Hill has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.59% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Marble Hill in 2022 was $17,444, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $69,776 for a family of four. However, Marble Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Marble Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Marble Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Marble Hill include German, Irish, English, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Marble Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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 Marble Hill, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 29.8%, which is higher than 95.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, 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 34 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.0% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.
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 Marble Hill are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.1% of U.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, 39.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.7%), and 14.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Marble Hill, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.7%), and residents who report English roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (73.5%) 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 (13.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.