Murry / Shaw median real estate price is $275,066, which is more expensive than 59.6% of the neighborhoods in Missouri and 35.3% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Murry / Shaw is currently $2,128, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 89.0% of the neighborhoods in Missouri.
Murry / Shaw is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Columbia, Missouri.
Murry / Shaw real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Murry / Shaw neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
In Murry / Shaw, the current vacancy rate is 3.0%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 80.1% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Murry / Shaw is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Columbia, the Murry / Shaw neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the Murry / Shaw neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
Murry / Shaw is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Murry / Shaw neighborhood in Columbia are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.5% 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 52.0% of America'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 Murry / Shaw neighborhood, 43.9% 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 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.9%), and 15.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the Murry / Shaw neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.0% 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 Murry / Shaw neighborhood in Columbia, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.5%), and residents who report English roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (4.7%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 Murry / Shaw neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.3%) 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 (11.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.