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Spalding - Greeley, NE

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Overview


Spalding - Greeley is a very small town located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 2,227 people and just one neighborhood, Spalding - Greeley is the 112th largest community in Nebraska. Much of the housing stock in Spalding - Greeley was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Spalding - Greeley isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Spalding - Greeley are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Spalding - Greeley is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Spalding - Greeley who work in management occupations (17.94%), sales jobs (9.88%), and office and administrative support (8.77%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 11.97% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Spalding - Greeley is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Spalding - Greeley a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Spalding - Greeley has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Spalding - Greeley’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

Being a small town, Spalding - Greeley does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Spalding - Greeley who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.13% of the adults in Spalding - Greeley have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Spalding - Greeley in 2018 was $28,736, which is low income relative to Nebraska, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,944 for a family of four. However, Spalding - Greeley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Spalding - Greeley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Spalding - Greeley residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Spalding - Greeley include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Czech.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

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 98.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 39.2% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 24.4% have Irish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.5% 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 96.5% 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 Spalding - Greeley are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.3% 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, 33.0% 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.1%), and 12.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households. Some people also speak Polish (7.5%).

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 Spalding - Greeley, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (24.4%), and residents who report English roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.4%), along with some Danish ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 (53.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (73.9%) 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 (8.7%) and 5.4% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work 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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