Joseph City is a very small town located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 1,307 people and just one neighborhood, Joseph City is the 140th largest community in Arizona.
Unlike some towns, Joseph City isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Joseph City are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Joseph City is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Joseph City who work in office and administrative support (16.97%), law enforcement and fire fighting (14.55%), and healthcare suport services (11.82%).
Also of interest is that Joseph City has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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!) Joseph City 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. Joseph City has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Joseph City than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Joseph City may be for you.
Being a small town, Joseph City does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Joseph City rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.43% of adults 25 and older in Joseph City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Joseph City in 2022 was $20,041, which is low income relative to Arizona and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,164 for a family of four. However, Joseph City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Joseph City is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Joseph City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Joseph City residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Joseph City also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 25.61% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Joseph City include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Joseph City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Navajo.
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.
An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.3% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.
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 4 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.6% of America.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Joseph City are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.5% 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, 27.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.9%), and 22.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 77.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
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 Joseph City, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (31.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.6%), and residents who report German roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (9.3%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (5.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (84.3%) 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 (11.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.