Wilder is a very small city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 1,642 people and just one neighborhood, Wilder is the 84th largest community in Idaho. Wilder has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Wilder, where the median household income is $54,375.00.
When you are in Wilder, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 55.24% of Wilder’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Wilder is a city of farmers, fishers, or foresters, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wilder who work in farm management occupations (20.29%), office and administrative support (8.12%), and food service (6.02%).
In addition, many people in Wilder have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.
Wilder is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Wilder has a very low overall level of education: only 7.04% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Wilder in 2022 was $19,900, which is low income relative to Idaho and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $79,600 for a family of four. However, Wilder contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wilder is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Wilder home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Wilder, accounting for 64.83% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Wilder residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Wilder include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Italian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Wilder's cultural character, accounting for 25.00% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in Wilder is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English 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.
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 99.4% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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 Wilder are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.4% 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 54.7% of America'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, 35.7% 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 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing (14.4%), 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 73.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (24.6%).
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 Wilder, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (27.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.3%), and residents who report German roots (12.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.2%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.0%), among others. In addition, 12.7% 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 (34.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.6%) 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 (10.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.