Jensen is a tiny town located in the state of Utah. With a population of 372 people and just one neighborhood, Jensen is the 148th largest community in Utah. Much of the housing stock in Jensen was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Jensen economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Jensen, where the median household income is .
Jensen is a blue-collar town, with 48.98% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Jensen is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jensen who work in office and administrative support (13.61%), maintenance occupations (13.61%), and healthcare suport services (12.93%).
Also of interest is that Jensen has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Because of many things, Jensen is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Jensen really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Jensen perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Jensen 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. Jensen has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Jensen than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Jensen may be for you.
One downside of living in Jensen is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Jensen, the average commute to work is 36.70 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Jensen is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Jensen isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
Being a small town, Jensen does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Jensen, just 6.08% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Jensen in 2022 was $47,843, which is wealthy relative to Utah and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $191,372 for a family of four. However, Jensen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Jensen home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jensen residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Jensen include European, French, English, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Jensen is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Native American languages.
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 Jensen, 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 5 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.2% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry and 25.3% have English 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 Jensen are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.5% 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 69.7% 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, 31.7% 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 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.3%), and 13.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households.
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 Jensen, UT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (25.3%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (5.2%), and residents who report German roots (5.1%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.2%), along with some Swedish 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 (49.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.7%) 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 (13.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.