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Dearborn, MO

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Overview


Dearborn is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 485 people and just one neighborhood, Dearborn is the 419th largest community in Missouri. Dearborn has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Dearborn real estate is some of the most expensive in Missouri, although Dearborn house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Dearborn is a blue-collar town, with 40.54% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Dearborn is a city of professionals, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dearborn who work in office and administrative support (18.92%), healthcare (14.59%), and teaching (5.95%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Dearborn 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. Dearborn has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Dearborn than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Dearborn may be for you.

One downside of living in Dearborn is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Dearborn, the average commute to work is 36.75 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small city, Dearborn doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Dearborn with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.07% of adults in Dearborn have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Dearborn in 2022 was $24,955, which is middle income relative to Missouri, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $99,820 for a family of four. However, Dearborn contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Dearborn home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dearborn residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Dearborn include Irish, German, English, French, and Norwegian.

The most common language spoken in Dearborn is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.2% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.4% of all American neighborhoods.

People

If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 12.7% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Missouri. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 33.9% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Dearborn are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 67.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.6% 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 65.9% of America'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, 34.9% 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.2%), and 10.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Dearborn, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (19.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.4%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (89.2%) 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 (5.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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