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Hoople - Fordville, ND

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Overview


Hoople - Fordville is a very small town located in the state of North Dakota. With a population of 2,148 people and just one neighborhood, Hoople - Fordville is the 47th largest community in North Dakota.

Occupations and Workforce

Hoople - Fordville is a blue-collar town, with 35.20% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Hoople - Fordville is a town of managers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Hoople - Fordville who work in management occupations (18.46%), farm management occupations (7.52%), and office and administrative support (7.23%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Hoople - Fordville is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Hoople - Fordville’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 17.77 minutes getting to work every day.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Hoople - Fordville who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.54% of the adults in Hoople - Fordville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Hoople - Fordville in 2018 was $37,294, which is middle income relative to North Dakota, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $149,176 for a family of four. However, Hoople - Fordville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Hoople - Fordville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Hoople - Fordville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hoople - Fordville residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Hoople - Fordville include Norwegian, German, Polish, French, and Czech.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 98.3% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

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 5 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 30.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 0.8% have Czechoslovakian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.4% 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 Hoople - Fordville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.4% 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 60.4% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 39.9% 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 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (12.7%), and 12.2% 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 91.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

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 Hoople - Fordville, ND, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Norwegian (30.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (18.4%), and residents who report Polish roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (6.8%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (6.6%), among others.

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 (52.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (83.0%) 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 (6.4%) . 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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