The Neighbors: Income
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 Spurgeon / Racine neighborhood in Neosho are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has
a higher income than 42.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, 11.7% of the children seventeen and under
living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which
is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 60.4%
of America's neighborhoods.
The Neighbors: Occupations
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 Spurgeon / Racine neighborhood, 31.5% 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 26.4% of the residents employed.
Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants
(23.9%), and 17.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The Neighbors: 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 Spurgeon / Racine neighborhood in Neosho, MO, residents
most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (12.3%).
There are also a number of people of English
ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report Asian roots
(7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish
ancestry (5.7%), along with some French ancestry residents
(5.1%), among others.
The Neighbors: Languages
The most common language spoken in the Spurgeon / Racine
neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.1%).