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Poplar, MT

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Overview


Poplar is a tiny city located in the state of Montana. With a population of 745 people and just one neighborhood, Poplar is the 109th largest community in Montana.

Occupations and Workforce

Poplar is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 87.32% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Poplar is a city of service providers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Poplar who work in maintenance occupations (19.25%), teaching (10.80%), and healthcare suport services (10.33%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Poplar spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.73 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.

For a small city, Poplar has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Poplar exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Poplar with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.25% of adults in Poplar have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Poplar in 2018 was $18,848, which is low income relative to Montana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $75,392 for a family of four. However, Poplar contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Poplar also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.17% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Poplar is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Poplar home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Poplar residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Poplar include Norwegian, Irish, German, Italian, and Romanian.

The most common language spoken in Poplar is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.

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 Poplar, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 24.1% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 99.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 4 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (2.1%) living in the neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 73.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Poplar are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 41.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.1% 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, 43.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions, 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 (22.5%), and 22.0% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households. Some people also speak Native American languages (2.2%).

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 Poplar, MT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (73.9%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (5.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.7%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.6%), along with some Danish ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (78.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (7.2%) and 5.6% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. 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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