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Wilder, ID

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Overview


Wilder is a very small city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 1,642 people and just one neighborhood, Wilder is the 84th largest community in Idaho. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Wilder, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Wilder, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Wilder’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Wilder does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $54,375.00.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Wilder, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 55.24% of Wilder’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Wilder is a city of farmers, fishers, or foresters, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wilder who work in farm management occupations (20.29%), office and administrative support (8.12%), and food service (6.02%).

Another important characteristic of Wilder 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

Being a small city, Wilder does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In Wilder, just 7.04% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Wilder in 2022 was $19,900, which is low income relative to Idaho and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $79,600 for a family of four. However, Wilder contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Wilder is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Wilder 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 Wilder, accounting for 64.83% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Wilder residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Wilder include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Italian.

Wilder also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 25.00%.

The most common language spoken in Wilder is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Tagalog.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

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 99.4% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

The Neighbors

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 Wilder are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.4% 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 54.7% 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, 35.7% 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 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing (14.4%), and 12.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 73.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (24.6%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Wilder, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (27.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.3%), and residents who report German roots (12.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.2%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.0%), among others. In addition, 12.7% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.6%) 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 (10.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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