Dakota City is a very small city located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 2,025 people and just one neighborhood, Dakota City is the 119th largest community in Nebraska.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Dakota City is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.05% of the Dakota City workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Dakota City is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dakota City who work in sales jobs (16.78%), office and administrative support (12.71%), and healthcare suport services (4.50%).
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 16.86 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small city, Dakota City does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Dakota City with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.35% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Dakota City in 2022 was $26,405, which is low income relative to Nebraska, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $105,620 for a family of four. However, Dakota City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Dakota City is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Dakota City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dakota City residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Dakota City also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 43.09% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Dakota City include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Dakota City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Laotian.
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.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (2.1%) living in the neighborhood.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 33.9% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.5% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 41.6% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.0% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry.
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 Dakota City 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. With 32.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.4% 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, 41.6% 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 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.4%), and 15.9% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 72.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (22.8%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Dakota City, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (33.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (24.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (6.3%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.8%), among others. In addition, 10.8% 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 (50.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.3%) 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 (12.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.