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Murtaugh, ID

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Overview


Murtaugh is a tiny city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 121 people and just one neighborhood, Murtaugh is the 142nd largest community in Idaho.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Murtaugh is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 56.38% of the Murtaugh workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Murtaugh is a city of transportation and shipping workers, managers, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Murtaugh who work in management occupations (14.89%), farm management occupations (12.77%), and sales jobs (8.51%).

In addition, many people in Murtaugh have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.

Of important note, Murtaugh is also a city of artists. Murtaugh has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Murtaugh’s character.

A relatively large number of people in Murtaugh telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.45% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Murtaugh is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

One downside of living in Murtaugh is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Murtaugh, the average commute to work is 31.15 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Murtaugh is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Murtaugh is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.89% of adults 25 and older in Murtaugh have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Murtaugh in 2018 was $22,757, which is lower middle income relative to Idaho, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $91,028 for a family of four. However, Murtaugh contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Murtaugh is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Murtaugh home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Murtaugh residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Murtaugh also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.73% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Murtaugh include English, German, Norwegian, Polish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Murtaugh is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and West Germanic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Murtaugh, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 99.5% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this 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 3 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.9% of America.

Diversity

Significantly, 0.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.3% 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 Murtaugh are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.1% 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 52.9% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 34.7% 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 19.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.1%), and 16.2% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 70.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (28.6%).

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 Murtaugh, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (34.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report English roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.0%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (2.3%), among others. In addition, 14.3% 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (76.4%) 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 (11.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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