Mansfield - Norwood is a somewhat small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 5,492 people and just one neighborhood, Mansfield - Norwood is the 132nd largest community in Missouri.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Mansfield - Norwood is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mansfield - Norwood is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Mansfield - Norwood who work in office and administrative support (11.81%), sales jobs (10.88%), and management occupations (9.03%).
Being a small town, Mansfield - Norwood does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Mansfield - Norwood is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.47% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mansfield - Norwood in 2022 was $25,450, 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 $101,800 for a family of four. However, Mansfield - Norwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Mansfield - Norwood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mansfield - Norwood residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Mansfield - Norwood include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Mansfield - Norwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Slavic languages.
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Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 40 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 neighborhood in Mansfield - Norwood are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.4% 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, 30.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.9%), and 16.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% 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 neighborhood in Mansfield - Norwood, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.4%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (1.2%), 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 (33.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (78.1%) 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 (15.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.