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Marsing is a very small city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 1,260 people and just one neighborhood, Marsing is the 87th largest community in Idaho.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Marsing is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 55.92% of the Marsing workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Marsing is a city of farmers, fishers, or foresters, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Marsing who work in farm management occupations (33.01%), office and administrative support (8.74%), and management occupations (6.21%).
You will also find that a lot of people in Marsing 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
The overall crime rate in Marsing is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
Marsing is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Demographics
In Marsing, just 6.26% 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 21.84%.
The per capita income in Marsing in 2018 was $22,392, 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 $89,568 for a family of four. However, Marsing contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Marsing is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Marsing home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Marsing, accounting for 60.29% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Marsing residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Marsing include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Norwegian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Marsing's cultural character, accounting for 31.11% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in Marsing is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Marsing, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 99.3% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
People
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.5%) living in the neighborhood.
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 Marsing are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.3% of U.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, 33.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 22.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.9%), and 13.3% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 79.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (20.7%).
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 Marsing, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (24.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.0%), and residents who report English roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.8%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.5%), among others. In addition, 14.1% 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (63.3%) 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 (15.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
