Wendell is a very small city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 3,010 people and just one neighborhood, Wendell is the 61st largest community in Idaho.
When you are in Wendell, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 49.57% of Wendell’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Wendell is a city of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wendell who work in farm management occupations (11.62%), office and administrative support (9.61%), and management occupations (8.39%).
Another important characteristic of Wendell 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.
As is often the case in a small city, Wendell doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The rate of college-level education in Wendell is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.31% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wendell in 2022 was $24,168, 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 $96,672 for a family of four. However, Wendell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wendell is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Wendell home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wendell residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Wendell also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 43.64% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Wendell include German, English, Irish, Norwegian, and European.
In addition, Wendell has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (22.11%).
The most common language spoken in Wendell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Japanese.
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.
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 99.3% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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 Wendell are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.8% of U.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, 34.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 22.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.9%), and 12.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 65.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (34.0%).
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 Wendell, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (36.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.7%), and residents who report English roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.7%), among others. In addition, 18.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (41.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.9%) 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 (13.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.