Marble Hill is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,375 people and just one neighborhood, Marble Hill is the 322nd largest community in Missouri.
When you are in Marble Hill, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 49.08% of Marble Hill’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Marble Hill is a city of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Marble Hill who work in maintenance occupations (9.33%), sales jobs (8.56%), and office and administrative support (7.19%).
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!) Marble Hill 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. Marble Hill has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Marble Hill than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Marble Hill may be for you.
One downside of living in Marble Hill, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.55 minutes every day commuting to work.
The population of Marble Hill has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.92% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Marble Hill in 2022 was $16,778, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $67,112 for a family of four. However, Marble Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Marble Hill also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.66% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Marble Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Marble Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Marble Hill include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Austrian.
The most common language spoken in Marble Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 46.2% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.7% of American neighborhoods.
Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 31.1% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 34 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.0% of America.
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 Marble Hill are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 46.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 22.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.1%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% 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 Marble Hill, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.0%), and residents who report English roots (3.8%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (1.5%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (35.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (73.0%) 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 (13.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.