Wendell is a very small city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 2,945 people and just one neighborhood, Wendell is the 61st largest community in Idaho.
Wendell is a blue-collar town, with 54.08% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Wendell is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wendell who work in farm management occupations (12.84%), office and administrative support (7.93%), and food service (6.72%).
You will also find that a lot of people in Wendell work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.
As is often the case in a small city, Wendell doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of people in Wendell with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.24% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wendell in 2022 was $20,571, which is low income relative to Idaho and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $82,284 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 39.66% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Wendell include German, English, Irish, European, and Portuguese.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Wendell's cultural character, accounting for 17.34% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in Wendell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Japanese.
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.
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.
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 Wendell are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.8% 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, 39.5% 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 18.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (16.3%), and 13.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 70.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (29.0%).
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 Wendell, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (33.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report English roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.5%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.8%), among others. In addition, 14.7% 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 (37.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.5%) 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 (14.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.