Ulm - Vaughn is a very small town located in the state of Montana. With a population of 4,932 people and just one neighborhood, Ulm - Vaughn is the 22nd largest community in Montana.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Ulm - Vaughn is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ulm - Vaughn is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Ulm - Vaughn who work in office and administrative support (10.91%), management occupations (9.77%), and teaching (9.15%).
Of important note, Ulm - Vaughn is also a town of artists. Ulm - Vaughn has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Ulm - Vaughn’s character.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.30% 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.
In terms of college education, Ulm - Vaughn is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.52% of adults 25 and older in Ulm - Vaughn have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ulm - Vaughn in 2022 was $34,604, which is upper middle income relative to Montana, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $138,416 for a family of four. However, Ulm - Vaughn contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ulm - Vaughn is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ulm - Vaughn home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ulm - Vaughn residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Ulm - Vaughn include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Ulm - Vaughn is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
Of particular note, 8.0% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
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 12 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.6% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Austrian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 1.4% have Austrian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Ulm - Vaughn are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.6% 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, 33.9% 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 30.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.7%), and 13.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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 Ulm - Vaughn, MT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.0%), and residents who report English roots (10.8%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (6.4%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (3.9%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (73.6%) 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 (8.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.