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Bloomfield - Wausa, NE

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Overview


Bloomfield - Wausa is a very small town located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 2,291 people and just one neighborhood, Bloomfield - Wausa is the 107th largest community in Nebraska. Bloomfield - Wausa has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Bloomfield - Wausa is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.63% of the Bloomfield - Wausa workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Bloomfield - Wausa is a town of service providers, managers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bloomfield - Wausa who work in management occupations (17.09%), food service (8.21%), and office and administrative support (6.68%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.59% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Bloomfield - Wausa is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Bloomfield - Wausa really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Bloomfield - Wausa perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Being a small town, Bloomfield - Wausa does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Bloomfield - Wausa is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.36% of adults 25 and older in Bloomfield - Wausa have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Bloomfield - Wausa in 2022 was $34,449, which is middle income relative to Nebraska and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $137,796 for a family of four. However, Bloomfield - Wausa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Bloomfield - Wausa home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bloomfield - Wausa residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Bloomfield - Wausa include German, Swedish, English, Irish, and Czech.

The most common language spoken in Bloomfield - Wausa is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

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 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 11.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 51.3% have German ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Bloomfield - Wausa are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.2% 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 60.5% of America'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, 33.5% 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 31.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.4%), and 10.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Bloomfield - Wausa, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (51.3%). There are also a number of people of Swedish ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report English roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.6%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (3.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (55.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (79.0%) 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 (7.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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