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Greenleaf, ID

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Overview


Greenleaf is a tiny city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 799 people and just one neighborhood, Greenleaf is the 102nd largest community in Idaho.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Greenleaf is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Greenleaf is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Greenleaf who work in healthcare suport services (16.86%), sales jobs (9.37%), and food service (8.67%).

Also of interest is that Greenleaf has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The citizens of Greenleaf are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.57% of adults in Greenleaf having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Greenleaf in 2018 was $24,715, which is middle income relative to Idaho, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,860 for a family of four. However, Greenleaf contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Greenleaf is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Greenleaf home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Greenleaf residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Greenleaf also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 23.66% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Greenleaf include Irish, German, English, British, and Scandinavian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Greenleaf, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.1% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

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 Greenleaf are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.5% 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 57.9% of America'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, 39.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 21.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.1%), and 16.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 86.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (8.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Greenleaf, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (18.6%), and residents who report Mexican roots (17.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (12.3%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (3.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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