Hagerman is a tiny city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 988 people and just one neighborhood, Hagerman is the 96th largest community in Idaho.
Hagerman is a blue-collar town, with 55.15% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Hagerman is a city of farmers, fishers, or foresters, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Hagerman who work in farm management occupations (27.46%), office and administrative support (16.02%), and sales jobs (10.07%).
You will also find that a lot of people in Hagerman work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Hagerman has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Hagerman a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small city, Hagerman does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The overall education level of Hagerman is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 28.72% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Hagerman in 2022 was $41,984, which is wealthy relative to Idaho, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $167,936 for a family of four. However, Hagerman contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Hagerman home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hagerman residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Hagerman include German, English, Irish, Finnish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Hagerman is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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 21.4% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 32 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 5.8% have Dutch ancestry.
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 Hagerman are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 29.8% 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 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing (21.4%), and 12.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 66.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (33.3%).
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 Hagerman, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (34.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report Dutch roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.9%), along with some Finnish ancestry residents (3.4%), among others. In addition, 21.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (36.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (73.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (7.0%) and 5.4% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors 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.