Winnebago is a tiny village located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 888 people and just one neighborhood, Winnebago is the 161st largest community in Nebraska.
Winnebago is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Winnebago is a village of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Winnebago who work in office and administrative support (13.36%), maintenance occupations (11.45%), and management occupations (10.31%).
Also of interest is that Winnebago has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The overall crime rate in Winnebago 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.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Winnebago rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.85% of adults 25 and older in Winnebago have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Winnebago in 2022 was $16,652, which is low income relative to Nebraska and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $66,608 for a family of four. Winnebago also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.76% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Winnebago is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Winnebago home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Winnebago residents report their race to be Native American, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Winnebago include Italian, German, English, European, and British.
The most common language spoken in Winnebago is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Navajo.
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.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 98.9% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 15 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 65.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Winnebago are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.9% 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, 42.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions (19.6%), and 16.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.8% of households. Some people also speak Native American languages (3.5%).
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 Winnebago, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (65.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (2.4%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (1.9%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 (52.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (78.6%) 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 (8.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.