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.
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 Hagerman, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.8% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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.
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 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.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
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%).
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 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.
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 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.