Stanley is a very small city located in the state of North Dakota. With a population of 2,184 people and just one neighborhood, Stanley is the 37th largest community in North Dakota. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Stanley, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Stanley, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Stanley’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Stanley does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $105,893.00.
Unlike some cities, Stanley isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Stanley are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Stanley is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Stanley who work in management occupations (11.93%), office and administrative support (10.69%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (8.29%).
Stanley is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Stanley citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.35% of adults in Stanley have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Stanley in 2022 was $47,807, which is wealthy relative to North Dakota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $191,228 for a family of four. However, Stanley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Stanley is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Stanley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Stanley residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Stanley also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.97% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Stanley include German, Norwegian, Irish, Italian, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Stanley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 3 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.6% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 26.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 2.5% have Danish 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 Stanley are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 75.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.8% 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, 33.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 33.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.2%), and 12.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.0%).
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 Stanley, ND, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Norwegian (26.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (18.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.8%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 (46.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.9%) 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 (11.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.