Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City is a very small town located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 3,627 people and just one neighborhood, Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City is the 53rd largest community in Idaho.
Unlike some towns, Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City who work in management occupations (13.32%), sales jobs (13.18%), and food service (9.25%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 19.70% 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.
The town 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, Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.63 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.90% of the adults in Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City in 2022 was $33,380, which is upper middle income relative to Idaho, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $133,520 for a family of four. However, Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Asian languages.
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.
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 5 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.4% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 10.3% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.8% of all neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American 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 Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.7% 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 59.6% 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, 37.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 30.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.2%), and 13.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.7%).
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 Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.2%), among others.
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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (36.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (65.5%) 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 (9.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.