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Scribner - Hooper, NE

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Overview


Scribner - Hooper is a very small town located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 4,575 people and just one neighborhood, Scribner - Hooper is the 44th largest community in Nebraska. Scribner - Hooper has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Scribner - Hooper, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.95% of Scribner - Hooper’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Scribner - Hooper is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Scribner - Hooper who work in office and administrative support (11.32%), management occupations (10.90%), and teaching (8.11%).

Also of interest is that Scribner - Hooper has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Scribner - Hooper is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Scribner - Hooper really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Scribner - Hooper perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Scribner - Hooper who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.07% of the adults in Scribner - Hooper have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Scribner - Hooper in 2018 was $34,802, which is upper middle income relative to Nebraska, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $139,208 for a family of four. However, Scribner - Hooper contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Scribner - Hooper is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Scribner - Hooper home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Scribner - Hooper residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Scribner - Hooper include German, Irish, Czech, Swedish, and English.

The most common language spoken in Scribner - Hooper is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

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.

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 95.7% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

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 21 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.5% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 40.2% have German ancestry.

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 Scribner - Hooper are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.9% of U.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, 36.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 32.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.6%), and 13.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (8.7%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Scribner - Hooper, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (40.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report Mexican roots (8.8%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (5.2%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.7%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.2%) 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 (12.1%) . 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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