Tioga is a very small city located in the state of North Dakota. With a population of 2,097 people and just one neighborhood, Tioga is the 43rd largest community in North Dakota. Much of the housing stock in Tioga was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Tioga economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Tioga, where the median household income is $63,920.00.
When you are in Tioga, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.80% of Tioga’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Tioga is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Tioga who work in office and administrative support (18.89%), teaching (13.76%), and sales jobs (6.74%).
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.67 minutes getting to work every day.
The education level of Tioga citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.06% of adults 25 and older in Tioga have a college degree.
The per capita income in Tioga in 2022 was $40,409, which is upper middle income relative to North Dakota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $161,636 for a family of four. However, Tioga contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Tioga is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tioga home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tioga residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Tioga also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.23% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Tioga include Norwegian, German, Irish, Dutch, and Russian.
The most common language spoken in Tioga is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Russian.
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 Tioga, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 31.1%, which is higher than 95.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 31.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 7.4% have Swedish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Russian 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 Tioga are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 54.5% of America'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, 37.8% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.4%), and 13.3% 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 93.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Russian.
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 Tioga, ND, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Norwegian (31.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (23.2%), and residents who report Swedish roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.3%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (4.4%), 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 (55.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.9%) 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 (5.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.