Peetz - Crook is a very small town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 1,083 people and just one neighborhood, Peetz - Crook is the 177th largest community in Colorado. Peetz - Crook has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Unlike some towns, Peetz - Crook isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Peetz - Crook are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Peetz - Crook is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Peetz - Crook who work in management occupations (22.53%), teaching (10.23%), and sales jobs (8.32%).
Also of interest is that Peetz - Crook has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 17.46% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Being a small town, Peetz - Crook does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The overall education level of Peetz - Crook citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 29.59% of adults in Peetz - Crook have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.
The per capita income in Peetz - Crook in 2022 was $47,675, which is upper middle income relative to Colorado, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $190,700 for a family of four. However, Peetz - Crook contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Peetz - Crook home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Peetz - Crook residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Peetz - Crook include German, Irish, English, French, and Czech.
The most common language spoken in Peetz - Crook is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Portuguese.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Peetz - Crook, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 2 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 99.1% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 45.0% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 2.7% have Danish ancestry.
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 Peetz - Crook are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 2.3% 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 73.7% 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, 54.6% 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 19.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (17.0%), and 7.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households.
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 Peetz - Crook, CO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (45.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.0%), and residents who report English roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.7%), along with some Mexican 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (74.8%) 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 (5.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.