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Hume, MO

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Overview


Hume is a tiny town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 283 people and just one neighborhood, Hume is the 470th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Hume is a blue-collar town, with 46.48% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Hume is a town of construction workers and builders, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hume who work in business and financial occupations (15.49%), maintenance occupations (8.45%), and sales jobs (7.04%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The town 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, Hume has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Hume a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

In Hume, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 40.39 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Hume does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Hume has a very low overall level of education: only 6.21% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Hume in 2022 was $26,261, 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 $105,044 for a family of four. However, Hume contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Hume also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.59% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Hume is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Hume home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hume residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Hume include German, Dutch, Irish, English, and European.

The most common language spoken in Hume is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Hume, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.8% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

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 12 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.7% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 35.5% have German ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Hume are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.8% 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, 31.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.1%), and 14.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.9% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (6.8%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Hume, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (35.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (21.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.3%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.1%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.0%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (35.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (76.5%) 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 (10.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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