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Buhl, ID

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Overview


Buhl is a very small city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 4,667 people and just one neighborhood, Buhl is the 41st largest community in Idaho.

Occupations and Workforce

Buhl is a blue-collar town, with 37.77% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Buhl is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Buhl who work in sales jobs (13.90%), management occupations (9.98%), and office and administrative support (9.30%).

You will also find that a lot of people in Buhl work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The citizens of Buhl are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.72% of adults in Buhl have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Buhl in 2018 was $24,073, which is lower middle income relative to Idaho, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $96,292 for a family of four. However, Buhl contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Buhl is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Buhl home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Buhl residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Buhl also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 32.66% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Buhl include English, German, Irish, Italian, and European.

Buhl also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 15.18%.

The most common language spoken in Buhl is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.0% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 20.9% have English ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Buhl are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.1% 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 55.5% of America'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, 28.3% 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 24.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.6%), and 16.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 79.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Buhl, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (23.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (20.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (9.9%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (4.0%), among others. In addition, 11.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (81.8%) 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 (10.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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