Ewing is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 397 people and just one neighborhood, Ewing is the 440th largest community in Missouri.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Ewing is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ewing is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ewing who work in sales jobs (15.79%), healthcare suport services (11.28%), and maintenance occupations (9.77%).
The overall crime rate in Ewing is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
One downside of living in Ewing, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.16 minutes every day commuting to work.
Ewing is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Ewing has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.84% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Ewing in 2022 was $21,879, 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 $87,516 for a family of four. However, Ewing contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ewing home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ewing residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ewing include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Ewing is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Ewing, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 96.5% 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 Ewing are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.0% 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, 33.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.4%), and 17.8% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.2%).
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 Ewing, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report English roots (8.6%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (3.8%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (78.9%) 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 (9.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.