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Stanley, ND

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Overview


Stanley is a very small city located in the state of North Dakota. With a population of 2,194 people and just one neighborhood, Stanley is the 37th largest community in North Dakota. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Stanley, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Stanley, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Stanley’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Stanley does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $101,351.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Stanley is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Stanley is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Stanley who work in management occupations (13.62%), office and administrative support (10.05%), and teaching (8.06%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Stanley’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

Stanley 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

The population of Stanley overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Stanley, 22.50% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Stanley in 2018 was $44,087, which is wealthy relative to North Dakota, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $176,348 for a family of four. However, Stanley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Stanley is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Stanley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Stanley residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Stanley also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.67% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Stanley include German, Norwegian, Irish, Italian, and English.

The most common language spoken in Stanley 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 Stanley, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 3 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.6% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 27.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 1.6% have Finnish ancestry.

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 Stanley are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 75.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.0% 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 58.6% 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, 34.8% 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 31.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.8%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (9.3%).

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 Stanley, ND, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Norwegian (27.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (17.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.4%), 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 (49.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (80.0%) 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 (9.8%) . 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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