Greenleaf is a tiny city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 790 people and just one neighborhood, Greenleaf is the 102nd largest community in Idaho.
Unlike some cities, Greenleaf isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Greenleaf are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Greenleaf is a city of service providers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Greenleaf who work in healthcare suport services (13.73%), sales jobs (9.84%), and food service (9.02%).
Also of interest is that Greenleaf has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
As is often the case in a small city, Greenleaf doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Greenleaf 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 Greenleaf, 24.11% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Greenleaf in 2022 was $28,467, which is middle income relative to Idaho, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $113,868 for a family of four. However, Greenleaf contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Greenleaf is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Greenleaf home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Greenleaf residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Greenleaf also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.10% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Greenleaf include Irish, German, English, Swedish, and British.
The most common language spoken in Greenleaf is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
Priests and therapists would like to think they know the secrets to a truly successful marriage, but according to NeighborhoodScout's research, the folks of the neighborhood may actually hold the key. 71.8% of its residents are married, which is a higher percentage than is found in 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 95.5% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Korean at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.9% 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 Greenleaf are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.2% 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 55.4% of America'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, 41.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 19.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.4%), and 17.2% in manufacturing and laborer 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 86.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.
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 Greenleaf, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.4%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (17.1%), and residents who report English roots (16.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (13.5%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 (35.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.