Crocker is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 919 people and just one neighborhood, Crocker is the 360th largest community in Missouri.
Unlike some cities, Crocker isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Crocker are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Crocker is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Crocker who work in food service (18.08%), sales jobs (12.99%), and office and administrative support (10.17%).
Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Crocker is worth considering.
One downside of living in Crocker is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Crocker, the average commute to work is 30.46 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Crocker does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Crocker rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.19% of adults 25 and older in Crocker have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Crocker in 2022 was $27,946, 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 $111,784 for a family of four. However, Crocker contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Crocker home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Crocker residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Crocker include English, German, Irish, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Crocker is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 92.5% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.5% of all American neighborhoods.
The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 95.3% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 37 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Crocker are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.5% 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, 34.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 26.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.9%), and 14.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% 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 Crocker, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (4.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.8%), 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 (41.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (92.5%) 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.