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Wilber - De Witt is a very small town located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 3,082 people and just one neighborhood, Wilber - De Witt is the 73rd largest community in Nebraska. Wilber - De Witt has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Wilber - De Witt is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.74% of the Wilber - De Witt workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Wilber - De Witt is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wilber - De Witt who work in management occupations (12.73%), office and administrative support (12.67%), and teaching (6.10%).
Setting & Lifestyle
Because of many things, Wilber - De Witt is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Wilber - De Witt really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Wilber - De Witt perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
Being a small town, Wilber - De Witt does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
The population of Wilber - De Witt 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 Wilber - De Witt, 22.64% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Wilber - De Witt in 2022 was $38,755, which is upper middle income relative to Nebraska and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $155,020 for a family of four. However, Wilber - De Witt contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wilber - De Witt is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wilber - De Witt home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wilber - De Witt residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Wilber - De Witt also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.92% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Wilber - De Witt include German, Czech, Irish, English, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Wilber - De Witt is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
People
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (2.0%) living in the neighborhood.
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 31 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.6% of America.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Cuban and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Cuban ancestry and 0.5% have Czechoslovakian ancestry.
The Neighbors
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 Wilber - De Witt are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.4% 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, 35.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.0%), and 16.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 80.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (15.6%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Wilber - De Witt, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.4%), and residents who report English roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.5%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (3.3%), among others. In addition, 13.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
Getting to Work
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.1%) 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.
