Clever is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 3,015 people and just one neighborhood, Clever is the 207th largest community in Missouri. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Clever, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Clever, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Clever’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Clever does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $77,403.00.
Clever real estate is some of the most expensive in Missouri, although Clever house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Clever is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Clever is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Clever who work in healthcare (9.62%), management occupations (8.92%), and food service (8.54%).
Also of interest is that Clever has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One downside of living in Clever, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.73 minutes every day commuting to work.
The overall education level of Clever is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 25.77% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Clever in 2022 was $30,458, which is upper middle income relative to Missouri, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $121,832 for a family of four. However, Clever contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Clever home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Clever residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Clever include Irish, English, German, Czechoslovakian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Clever is English. Other important languages spoken here include Other Asian languages and Arabic.
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.
If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 11.0% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Missouri. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian 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 Clever are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 73.5% of America'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, 33.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 27.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.3%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% 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 Clever, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report English roots (11.0%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.2%), along with some Czechoslovakian ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 (40.6% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (81.9%) 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 (6.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.