Raymondville is a tiny town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 364 people and just one neighborhood, Raymondville is the 455th largest community in Missouri.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Raymondville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Raymondville is a town of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Raymondville who work in teaching (14.95%), maintenance occupations (9.79%), and office and administrative support (8.76%).
Residents will find that the town 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, Raymondville is worth considering.
Being a small town, Raymondville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Raymondville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.27% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Raymondville in 2022 was $22,880, 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 $91,520 for a family of four. However, Raymondville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Raymondville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Raymondville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Raymondville include Irish, German, English, European, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Raymondville is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.5% of America.
In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 30.0% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch 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 Raymondville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.3% 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, 32.9% 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 32.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.4%), and 15.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.4%).
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 Raymondville, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.0%), and residents who report English roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (3.5%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.8%) 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 (17.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.