La Verkin is a very small city located in the state of Utah. With a population of 4,510 people and just one neighborhood, La Verkin is the 109th largest community in Utah.
Unlike some cities, La Verkin isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in La Verkin are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, La Verkin is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in La Verkin who work in office and administrative support (19.06%), sales jobs (9.73%), and food service (8.91%).
Being a small city, La Verkin does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of La Verkin citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.36% of adults in La Verkin have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in La Verkin in 2022 was $21,945, which is low income relative to Utah and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $87,780 for a family of four. However, La Verkin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
La Verkin is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call La Verkin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of La Verkin residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in La Verkin include English, European, German, Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in La Verkin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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 La Verkin, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 27.7% 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 La Verkin are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 45.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.3% 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, 30.7% 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 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (24.4%), and 17.1% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.3% of households.
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 La Verkin, UT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (27.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.1%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (2.7%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (79.9%) 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 (9.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.