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Melbeta, NE

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Overview


Melbeta is a tiny village located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 109 people and just one neighborhood, Melbeta is the 208th largest community in Nebraska. Melbeta has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Melbeta is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.50% of the Melbeta workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Melbeta is a village of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Melbeta who work in healthcare suport services (15.91%), teaching (12.50%), and office and administrative support (11.36%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 46.59% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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

The overall crime rate in Melbeta is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Melbeta has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Melbeta has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Melbeta than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Melbeta may be for you.

Residents of the village have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 17.39 minutes getting to work every day.

Melbeta is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

Melbeta ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 1.46% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Melbeta in 2022 was $25,245, 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 $100,980 for a family of four.

Melbeta is a very ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Melbeta home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Melbeta residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Melbeta also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 21.47% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Melbeta include German, Irish, French, English, and Swedish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Melbeta, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 5 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 97.5% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 39.6% of this neighborhood's residents 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 Melbeta are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 23.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.9% 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, 32.5% 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 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.4%), and 15.6% 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 90.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (8.8%).

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 Melbeta, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.6%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report English roots (11.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.2%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (2.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (59.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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