Wall - New Underwood is a very small town located in the state of South Dakota. With a population of 4,098 people and just one neighborhood, Wall - New Underwood is the 29th largest community in South Dakota.
Unlike some towns, Wall - New Underwood isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Wall - New Underwood are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Wall - New Underwood is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Wall - New Underwood who work in management occupations (15.96%), office and administrative support (13.77%), and sales jobs (11.26%).
Also of interest is that Wall - New Underwood has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.77% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
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, Wall - New Underwood has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Wall - New Underwood a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Wall - New Underwood is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Wall - New Underwood is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 26.19% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Wall - New Underwood in 2022 was $35,502, which is upper middle income relative to South Dakota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $142,008 for a family of four. However, Wall - New Underwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wall - New Underwood is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wall - New Underwood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wall - New Underwood residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Wall - New Underwood include German, Irish, Norwegian, English, and European.
The most common language spoken in Wall - New Underwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Wall - New Underwood, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 2 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.9% of America.
The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 95.8% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.
In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 22.8% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 95.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 11.2% have Norwegian ancestry.
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 Wall - New Underwood are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.4% 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 52.1% of America'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, 38.0% 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 21.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.4%), and 17.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.0%).
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 Wall - New Underwood, SD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (35.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (11.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 (40.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (65.9%) 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 (22.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.