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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 1,685 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 $55,938.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Wilder is a blue-collar town, with 46.83% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Wilder is a city of service providers, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wilder who work in farm management occupations (15.57%), office and administrative support (10.29%), and teaching (5.28%).

In addition, many people in Wilder have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small city, Wilder doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Wilder has a very low overall level of education: only 9.60% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Wilder in 2022 was $20,459, which is low income relative to Idaho and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $81,836 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 59.94% 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 Asian. Important ancestries of people in Wilder include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Italian.

Wilder also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 19.88%.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

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 10.8% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Car Ownership

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 33.2% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.1% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

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 57.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 35.8% 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 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.7%), and 13.7% 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 78.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (20.1%).

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 (24.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.7%), and residents who report English roots (10.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.3%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (5.0%), among others. In addition, 10.3% 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (81.9%) 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 (10.3%) . 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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