Preston - Franklin is a somewhat small town located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 7,974 people and just one neighborhood, Preston - Franklin is the 31st largest community in Idaho. Preston - Franklin has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Preston - Franklin is a blue-collar town, with 42.09% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Preston - Franklin is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Preston - Franklin who work in management occupations (10.14%), office and administrative support (9.19%), and sales jobs (7.58%).
The citizens of Preston - Franklin are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.81% of adults in Preston - Franklin have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Preston - Franklin in 2022 was $28,711, which is upper middle income relative to Idaho, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,844 for a family of four. However, Preston - Franklin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Preston - Franklin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Preston - Franklin residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Preston - Franklin include English, German, European, Danish, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Preston - Franklin 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.
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 42 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.5% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 25.2% have English 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 Preston - Franklin are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. 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 59.3% 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, 39.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.0%), and 10.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 94.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Preston - Franklin, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (25.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.6%), and residents who report Danish roots (4.3%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.4%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (84.2%) 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 (6.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.