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Bonners Ferry, ID

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Overview


Bonners Ferry is a very small city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 2,698 people and just one neighborhood, Bonners Ferry is the 70th largest community in Idaho.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Bonners Ferry is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.49% of the Bonners Ferry workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Bonners Ferry is a city of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bonners Ferry who work in sales jobs (12.74%), management occupations (7.44%), and personal care services (6.92%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.27% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

As is often the case in a small city, Bonners Ferry doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Bonners Ferry is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.73% of adults 25 and older in Bonners Ferry have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Bonners Ferry in 2022 was $21,376, which is low income relative to Idaho and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,504 for a family of four. However, Bonners Ferry contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Bonners Ferry is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

If you like to ride a ferry to work, this neighborhood may be for you. NeighborhoodScout's research revealed that 1.2% of the neighborhood's commuters ride a ferry to and from work each day, which is more than we found in 99.1% of America'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 7.6% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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 6 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.0% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Austrian and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Austrian ancestry and 2.5% have Native American ancestry.

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 Bonners Ferry are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.7% 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, 29.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 24.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.7%), and 16.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.4%).

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 Bonners Ferry, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.7%), and residents who report English roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (7.6%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 (36.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (71.9%) 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 (15.9%) and 7.0% 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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