Cassville is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 3,230 people and just one neighborhood, Cassville is the 195th largest community in Missouri.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Cassville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.03% of the Cassville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Cassville is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cassville who work in food service (15.34%), office and administrative support (15.27%), and healthcare (8.83%).
The city 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, Cassville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cassville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Cassville spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 17.18 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small city, Cassville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Cassville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.06% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cassville in 2022 was $35,410, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $141,640 for a family of four. However, Cassville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Cassville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cassville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cassville include German, English, Irish, French, and Russian.
The most common language spoken in Cassville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Cassville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.7%) living in the neighborhood.
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 Cassville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 43.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.1% 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, 39.0% 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 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.7%), and 12.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% 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 Cassville, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.0%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (79.3%) 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 (10.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.