Meeteetse is a tiny town located in the state of Wyoming. With a population of 313 people and just one neighborhood, Meeteetse is the 59th largest community in Wyoming.
Meeteetse home prices are not only among the most expensive in Wyoming, but Meeteetse real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.
Meeteetse is a blue-collar town, with 35.75% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Meeteetse is a town of managers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Meeteetse who work in management occupations (11.73%), business and financial occupations (11.73%), and maintenance occupations (8.94%).
Of important note, Meeteetse is also a town of artists. Meeteetse has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Meeteetse’s character.
A relatively large number of people in Meeteetse telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 23.16% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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 overall crime rate in Meeteetse 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.
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, Meeteetse has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Meeteetse a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Meeteetse 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, Meeteetse is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.84% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Meeteetse in 2022 was $25,237, which is low income relative to Wyoming, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,948 for a family of four. However, Meeteetse contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Meeteetse is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Meeteetse home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Meeteetse residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Meeteetse also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.44% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Meeteetse include English, German, Irish, French, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Meeteetse is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
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 99.2% of America.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 7.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Astoundingly, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this single neighborhood has a higher concentration of married couples living here than 97.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Whether they have school-aged children or not, married couples are the rule in the neighborhood. If you are a married couple, you may find many people here with a similar lifestyle, and perhaps common interests. But if you are single, you might not find many other singles here.
In addition, if you are planning to retire in Wyoming, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Wyoming, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 97.5% of neighborhoods in WY. If a Wyoming retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 5.4% have Dutch ancestry.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Meeteetse are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.9% 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, 33.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.8%), and 15.5% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.7%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Meeteetse, WY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (19.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (8.7%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (6.8%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (66.0%) 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 (10.9%) and 6.8% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.