Ravenwood is a tiny town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 420 people and just one neighborhood, Ravenwood is the 430th largest community in Missouri.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Ravenwood is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.37% of the Ravenwood workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Ravenwood is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Ravenwood who work in food service (11.58%), sales jobs (8.42%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (5.79%).
The overall crime rate in Ravenwood is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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, Ravenwood has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ravenwood a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Ravenwood does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Ravenwood with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.80% of adults in Ravenwood have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ravenwood in 2022 was $22,147, which is lower middle income relative to Missouri, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $88,588 for a family of four. However, Ravenwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ravenwood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ravenwood residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ravenwood include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Ravenwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include West Germanic languages and Spanish.
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.
Of particular note, 8.8% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
In addition, if you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Ravenwood is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in MO, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 87.5% of the neighborhoods in Missouri. If you are considering retiring to Missouri, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 34.2% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Ravenwood are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.3% 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, 39.2% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.8%), and 11.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% 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 Ravenwood, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (34.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.5%), and residents who report English roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 (45.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (84.2%) 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 (7.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.