Kimball is a very small city located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 2,192 people and just one neighborhood, Kimball is the 108th largest community in Nebraska.
Kimball is a blue-collar town, with 42.19% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Kimball is a city of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Kimball who work in office and administrative support (14.67%), management occupations (9.30%), and sales jobs (6.52%).
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Kimball spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 15.86 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
As is often the case in a small city, Kimball doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Kimball with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.50% of adults in Kimball have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Kimball in 2022 was $31,853, which is lower middle income relative to Nebraska, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $127,412 for a family of four. However, Kimball contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Kimball is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Kimball home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kimball residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Kimball also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.12% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Kimball include German, Irish, English, Swedish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Kimball is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 72.1% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
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 4 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.6% of America.
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, 6.7% 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 Kimball are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.5% of U.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, 35.5% 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 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.2%), and 16.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 95.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 Kimball, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report English roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (8.5%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (6.7%), among others.
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 (72.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.6%) 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 (10.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.