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Marsing is a very small city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 1,260 people and just one neighborhood, Marsing is the 87th largest community in Idaho.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Marsing is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 55.92% of the Marsing workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Marsing is a city of farmers, fishers, or foresters, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Marsing who work in farm management occupations (33.01%), office and administrative support (8.74%), and management occupations (6.21%).
Another important characteristic of Marsing is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
Setting & Lifestyle
Overall, Marsing’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Marsing 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
The citizens of Marsing have a very low rate of college education: just 6.26% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Marsing in 2022 was $22,392, 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 $89,568 for a family of four. However, Marsing contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Marsing is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Marsing home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Marsing, accounting for 60.29% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Marsing residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Marsing include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Norwegian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Marsing's cultural character, accounting for 31.11% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in Marsing is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
Occupations
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 13.3% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
People
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.5%) living in the neighborhood.
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 Marsing are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.3% 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, 33.9% 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 22.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.9%), and 13.3% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 79.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (20.7%).
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 Marsing, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (24.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.0%), and residents who report English roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.8%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.5%), among others. In addition, 14.1% 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 (38.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (63.3%) 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 (15.7%) . 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.
