About Parma

Parma is a very small city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 1,790 people and just one neighborhood, Parma is the 68th largest community in Idaho.

Parma is a blue-collar town, with 46.0% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Parma is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Parma who work in sales jobs (8.67%), office and administrative support jobs (8.28%), and teaching (4.73%).

Another important characteristic of Parma is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.

Being a small city, Parma does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Parma Information and Demographics

In Parma, just 9.47% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 14.96%.

The per capita income in Parma in 2000 was $11,861, which is low income relative to Idaho and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $47,444 for a family of four.

Parma is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Parma home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Parma is White, followed by Native American. Parma also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.54% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Parma include English, German, Irish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Parma is English. Some people also speak Spanish.