Drexel - Freeman is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 4,134 people and just one neighborhood, Drexel - Freeman is the 167th largest community in Missouri.
Drexel - Freeman real estate is some of the most expensive in Missouri, although Drexel - Freeman house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Unlike some towns, Drexel - Freeman isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Drexel - Freeman are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Drexel - Freeman is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Drexel - Freeman who work in management occupations (14.83%), office and administrative support (11.90%), and sales jobs (10.24%).
Also of interest is that Drexel - Freeman has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.01% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
In Drexel - Freeman, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.34 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
The education level of Drexel - Freeman citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.91% of adults 25 and older in Drexel - Freeman have a college degree.
The per capita income in Drexel - Freeman in 2022 was $41,134, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $164,536 for a family of four. However, Drexel - Freeman contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Drexel - Freeman home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Drexel - Freeman residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Drexel - Freeman include German, Irish, English, Swedish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Drexel - Freeman is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 32 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry.
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 Drexel - Freeman are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.8% of U.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 neighborhood, 39.1% 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 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 (20.1%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.0%).
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 Drexel - Freeman, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.0%), and residents who report English roots (11.5%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (4.8%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.0%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (36.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (78.6%) 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 (9.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.