Maitland - Craig is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,174 people and just one neighborhood, Maitland - Craig is the third largest community in Missouri. Maitland - Craig has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns, Maitland - Craig isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Maitland - Craig are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Maitland - Craig is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Maitland - Craig who work in management occupations (18.16%), office and administrative support (11.80%), and teaching (8.43%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 15.17% 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.
Maitland - Craig is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of people in Maitland - Craig who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.65% of adults in Maitland - Craig have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Maitland - Craig in 2022 was $37,209, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $148,836 for a family of four. However, Maitland - Craig contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Maitland - Craig home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Maitland - Craig residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Maitland - Craig include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Maitland - Craig is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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 Maitland - Craig, 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 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
If you are planning to retire in Missouri, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Missouri, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 95.2% of neighborhoods in MO. If a Missouri retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.
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 Maitland - Craig are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.4% of U.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, 40.1% 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 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.7%), and 15.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 Maitland - Craig, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.0%), along with some South American ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 (41.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (75.1%) 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 (6.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.