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Moapa, NV

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Overview


Moapa is a very small town located in the state of Nevada. With a population of 1,006 people and just one neighborhood, Moapa is the 47th largest community in Nevada.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Moapa is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 49.72% of the Moapa workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Moapa is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Moapa who work in maintenance occupations (18.99%), office and administrative support (13.41%), and teaching (10.06%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Moapa has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Moapa a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Moapa is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Moapa, the average commute to work is 34.70 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Moapa does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Moapa is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.00% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Moapa in 2022 was $37,867, which is middle income relative to Nevada, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $151,468 for a family of four. However, Moapa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Moapa is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Moapa home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Moapa residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Moapa also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 34.02% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Moapa include English, Irish, Scots-Irish, German, and Scottish.

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

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.

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 1 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 99.5% of America.

Length of Commute

Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 11.6% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.0% of all neighborhoods in America.

Occupations

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 42.7% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.0% of American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 33.5% have English ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Moapa are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.4% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 62.7% of America'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, 42.7% 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 34.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (12.9%), and 9.8% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

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 81.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian and Polish.

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 Moapa, NV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (33.5%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (30.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (15.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (9.9%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (9.4%), 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 (40.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (11.6%) who commute over an hour in each direction.

Here most residents (82.0%) 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 (17.4%) . 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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