Urbana is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 403 people and just one neighborhood, Urbana is the 445th largest community in Missouri.
Urbana is a blue-collar town, with 42.29% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Urbana is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Urbana who work in healthcare suport services (11.94%), food service (9.45%), and management occupations (7.96%).
Urbana’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Urbana has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Urbana has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Urbana than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Urbana may be for you.
One downside of living in Urbana is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Urbana, the average commute to work is 39.16 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Urbana does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Urbana ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.33% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Urbana in 2022 was $24,430, 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 $97,720 for a family of four. However, Urbana contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Urbana home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Urbana residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Urbana include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Finnish.
The most common language spoken in Urbana is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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.
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 95.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
Would you like to be able to ride your bike to work? If you are attracted to the idea of getting a little exercise of the two-wheeled type while reducing your carbon footprint, bicycling to work might be the answer. But which neighborhood you live in can make this either impossible, or alternatively, a great and realistic option. NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that the neighborhood is a fantastic option for bicycle commuters, as 2.6% of commuters here do ride their bikes to and from work on a daily basis. This is a higher amount than we found in 95.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 1.6% have Swiss ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 13.5% 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 99.7% 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 Urbana are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.7% 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, 39.4% 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.5%), and 8.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 85.7% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (13.5%).
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 Urbana, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.4%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (5.1%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (4.8%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (37.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (76.9%) 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 (15.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.