Weeping Water - Eagle is a somewhat small town located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 5,088 people and just one neighborhood, Weeping Water - Eagle is the 38th largest community in Nebraska.
Weeping Water - Eagle is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Weeping Water - Eagle is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Weeping Water - Eagle who work in office and administrative support (12.64%), management occupations (11.84%), and sales jobs (6.47%).
Also of interest is that Weeping Water - Eagle has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Because of many things, Weeping Water - Eagle is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Weeping Water - Eagle 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, Weeping Water - Eagle has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Weeping Water - Eagle’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
Being a small town, Weeping Water - Eagle does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Weeping Water - Eagle is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 25.44% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Weeping Water - Eagle in 2018 was $37,639, which is wealthy relative to Nebraska, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $150,556 for a family of four. However, Weeping Water - Eagle contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Weeping Water - Eagle home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Weeping Water - Eagle residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Weeping Water - Eagle include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Danish.
The most common language spoken in Weeping Water - Eagle is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 34 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 13.2% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Nebraska. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 4.5% have Danish ancestry.
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 Weeping Water - Eagle are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.3% 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 74.4% 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, 34.6% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.4%), and 18.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households.
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 Weeping Water - Eagle, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (40.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report English roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (5.8%), along with some Danish ancestry residents (4.5%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.3%) 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 (8.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
