Heyburn is a very small city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 3,726 people and just one neighborhood, Heyburn is the 48th largest community in Idaho.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Heyburn is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.56% of the Heyburn workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Heyburn is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Heyburn who work in office and administrative support (13.88%), sales jobs (9.71%), and teaching (7.54%).
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Heyburn spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 13.76 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small city, Heyburn does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Heyburn is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 27.94% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Heyburn in 2022 was $29,253, which is middle income relative to Idaho, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $117,012 for a family of four. However, Heyburn contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Heyburn is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Heyburn home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Heyburn residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Heyburn also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.96% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Heyburn include English, German, Irish, French, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Heyburn is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Greek.
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.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 62.2% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.5% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Significantly, 1.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Heyburn are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 20.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 37.0% 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 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.7%), and 15.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 81.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Heyburn, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (25.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.9%), and residents who report German roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.8%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 (62.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.4%) 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 (14.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.