Bowling Green is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 4,143 people and just one neighborhood, Bowling Green is the 166th largest community in Missouri.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Bowling Green is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bowling Green is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Bowling Green who work in management occupations (11.02%), sales jobs (9.90%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (9.23%).
Being a small city, Bowling Green does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Bowling Green with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.36% of adults in Bowling Green have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Bowling Green in 2022 was $21,033, 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 $84,132 for a family of four. However, Bowling Green contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Bowling Green is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bowling Green home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bowling Green residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bowling Green include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Iraqi.
The most common language spoken in Bowling Green is English. Other important languages spoken here include Arabic and Spanish.
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.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 96.6% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.9%) living in the neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Arab ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Arab ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Arabic at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.7% 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 Bowling Green are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 32.3% 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 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (26.4%), and 14.3% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.2% of households. Some people also speak Arabic (3.9%).
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 Bowling Green, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report English roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of Arab ancestry (3.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (78.7%) 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 (12.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.