Dakota City is a very small city located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 2,047 people and just one neighborhood, Dakota City is the 119th largest community in Nebraska.
Dakota City is a blue-collar town, with 44.12% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Dakota City is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dakota City who work in sales jobs (16.14%), office and administrative support (12.27%), and healthcare suport services (5.19%).
One of the benefits of Dakota City is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.10 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
As is often the case in a small city, Dakota City doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Dakota City, just 12.85% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Dakota City in 2022 was $26,946, which is low income relative to Nebraska, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $107,784 for a family of four. However, Dakota City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Dakota City is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Dakota City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dakota City residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Dakota City also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 42.75% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Dakota City include German, Irish, Scottish, English, and Swedish.
In addition, Dakota City has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (16.58%).
The most common language spoken in Dakota City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Laotian.
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.
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 36.9% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.1% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (2.1%) living in the neighborhood.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
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 Dakota City are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 61.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 42.9% 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 19.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.0%), and 17.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 70.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (21.8%).
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 Dakota City, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (31.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (21.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.2%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (5.4%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.6%), among others. In addition, 13.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (54.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.3%) 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 (15.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.