Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City is a very small town located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 3,707 people and just one neighborhood, Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City is the 53rd largest community in Idaho.
Unlike some towns, Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City who work in management occupations (13.42%), sales jobs (13.07%), and office and administrative support (11.83%).
A relatively large number of people in Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 22.88% 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.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City, the average commute to work is 34.09 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.93% of adults in Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City in 2022 was $36,015, which is upper middle income relative to Idaho, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $144,060 for a family of four. However, Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City include German, English, Irish, Dutch, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Asian languages.
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.
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 5 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.4% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.6% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.9% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 1.9% have Native American ancestry.
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 Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.7% 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 59.0% 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, 38.0% 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 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.5%), and 16.9% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.7%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Horseshoe Bend - Idaho City, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (5.7%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.4%), among others.
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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (60.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (8.7%) and 7.5% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.