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Seeley Lake, MT

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Overview


Seeley Lake is a very small town located in the state of Montana. With a population of 1,682 people and just one neighborhood, Seeley Lake is the 66th largest community in Montana.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Seeley Lake, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.44% of Seeley Lake’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Seeley Lake is a town of construction workers and builders, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Seeley Lake who work in management occupations (25.63%), office and administrative support (10.22%), and sales jobs (8.06%).

Of important note, Seeley Lake is also a town of artists. Seeley Lake has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Seeley Lake’s character.

A relatively large number of people in Seeley Lake telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 21.27% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Another notable thing is that Seeley Lake is a major vacation destination. Much of the town’s population is seasonal: many people own second homes and only live there part-time, during the vacation season. The effect on the local economy is that many of the businesses are dependent on tourist dollars, and may operate only during the high season. As the vacation season ends, Seeley Lake’s population drops significantly, such that year-round residents will notice that the city is a much quieter place to live.

Because of many things, Seeley Lake is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Seeley Lake a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Seeley Lake has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Seeley Lake’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Seeley Lake has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Seeley Lake a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Seeley Lake spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 15.34 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

Being a small town, Seeley Lake does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The education level of Seeley Lake citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.07% of adults in Seeley Lake have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Seeley Lake in 2022 was $34,990, which is upper middle income relative to Montana, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $139,960 for a family of four. However, Seeley Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Seeley Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Seeley Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Seeley Lake include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Seeley Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

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 7 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.9% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 32.9% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 5.6% have Scottish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Seeley Lake are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 4.2% 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 67.2% of America'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, 36.4% 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 33.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.4%), and 12.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 94.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Seeley Lake, MT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.5%), and residents who report English roots (13.4%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (7.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (5.6%), among others.

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 (39.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (68.2%) 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 (9.6%) and 5.7% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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