Madison - Newman Grove is a very small town located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 4,519 people and just one neighborhood, Madison - Newman Grove is the 43rd largest community in Nebraska. Much of the housing stock in Madison - Newman Grove was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Madison - Newman Grove is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.27% of the Madison - Newman Grove workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Madison - Newman Grove is a town of managers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Madison - Newman Grove who work in management occupations (14.88%), office and administrative support (7.06%), and teaching (6.93%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.18% 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.
Madison - Newman Grove’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
The percentage of adults in Madison - Newman Grove who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.44% of the adults in Madison - Newman Grove have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Madison - Newman Grove in 2022 was $27,968, 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 $111,872 for a family of four. However, Madison - Newman Grove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Madison - Newman Grove is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Madison - Newman Grove home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Madison - Newman Grove residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Madison - Newman Grove also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 34.26% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Madison - Newman Grove include German, English, Irish, Czech, and French.
The most common language spoken in Madison - Newman Grove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 Madison - Newman Grove, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.8%) living in the neighborhood.
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 15 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.9% of 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 Madison - Newman Grove are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.4% 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, 40.2% 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 33.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.8%), and 9.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 69.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (28.9%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Madison - Newman Grove, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.6%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (28.2%), and residents who report English roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.6%), among others. In addition, 13.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (72.1%) 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 (12.7%) and 5.5% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.