Wyaconda is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 209 people and just one neighborhood, Wyaconda is the 498th largest community in Missouri.
When you are in Wyaconda, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 57.65% of Wyaconda’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Wyaconda is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wyaconda who work in office and administrative support (16.47%), farm management occupations (15.29%), and management occupations (11.76%).
In addition, many people in Wyaconda have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.
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, Wyaconda is worth considering.
In Wyaconda, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 42.43 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Wyaconda is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Wyaconda ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 4.92% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wyaconda in 2022 was $30,275, which is upper middle income relative to Missouri, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $121,100 for a family of four. However, Wyaconda contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Wyaconda also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.20% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Wyaconda home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wyaconda residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Wyaconda include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Wyaconda is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
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.
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 6 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.9% of America.
In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 35.2% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.6% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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 Wyaconda are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.0% 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, 35.0% 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.1%), and 7.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.9% of households.
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 Wyaconda, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report English roots (11.1%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.6%), along with some Dutch 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (72.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (5.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.