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North Loup - Arcadia is a very small town located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 1,717 people and just one neighborhood, North Loup - Arcadia is the 132nd largest community in Nebraska. Much of the housing stock in North Loup - Arcadia was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some towns, North Loup - Arcadia isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in North Loup - Arcadia are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, North Loup - Arcadia is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in North Loup - Arcadia who work in management occupations (15.52%), office and administrative support (14.97%), and farm management occupations (6.87%).
Of important note, North Loup - Arcadia is also a town of artists. North Loup - Arcadia has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape North Loup - Arcadia’s character.
Setting & Lifestyle
Because of many things, North Loup - Arcadia is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making North Loup - Arcadia a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, North Loup - Arcadia has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, North Loup - Arcadia’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.84 minutes getting to work every day.
As is often the case in a small town, North Loup - Arcadia doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The population of North Loup - Arcadia overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in North Loup - Arcadia, 23.83% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in North Loup - Arcadia in 2022 was $38,013, which is upper middle income relative to Nebraska and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $152,052 for a family of four. However, North Loup - Arcadia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call North Loup - Arcadia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of North Loup - Arcadia residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in North Loup - Arcadia include German, Czech, English, Polish, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in North Loup - Arcadia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Portuguese.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
Real Estate
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 3 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.7% of America.
In addition, do you watch 'This Old House' on Public Television? Do you love the idea of fixing up a Colonial or Victorian era home, complete with the charm of yesteryear? Do you like to stroll or drive streets lined with gracious older residences? If you found yourself nodding yes to any of these questions, you are going to be interested in this unique neighborhood. The neighborhood stands out on a national scale for the sheer concentration of historic residences it contains: 54.0% of the residential real estate here was built from 1939 or earlier, some much earlier. This is a greater concentration of historic homes than 95.0% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
Occupations
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 98.2% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
People
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in North Loup - Arcadia is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in NE, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 85.2% of the neighborhoods in Nebraska. If you are considering retiring to Nebraska, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 36.5% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
The Neighbors
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 North Loup - Arcadia are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.9% 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 64.5% 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, 40.0% 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 21.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.3%), and 13.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Polish (12.6%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in North Loup - Arcadia, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (36.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.0%), and residents who report Polish roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.3%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (53.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.0%) 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 (7.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
