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Shoshone, ID

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Overview


Shoshone is a very small city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 1,706 people and just one neighborhood, Shoshone is the 83rd largest community in Idaho. Shoshone has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.

Occupations and Workforce

Shoshone is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Shoshone is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Shoshone who work in office and administrative support (21.21%), maintenance occupations (7.84%), and management occupations (7.20%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Shoshone is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Shoshone, the average commute to work is 35.04 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small city, Shoshone doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Shoshone is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.97% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Shoshone in 2018 was $24,721, which is lower middle income relative to Idaho and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $98,884 for a family of four. However, Shoshone contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Shoshone is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Shoshone home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shoshone residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Shoshone also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 39.77% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Shoshone include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Norwegian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Shoshone's cultural character, accounting for 20.39% of the city’s population.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 4 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.4% of America.

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 7.7% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Shoshone are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.6% 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, 30.1% 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 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.4%), and 15.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 73.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (25.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Shoshone, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (28.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.0%), and residents who report German roots (6.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.9%), among others. In addition, 16.0% 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (37.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (76.8%) 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 (14.6%) . 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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