Wakefield - Allen is a very small town located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 3,146 people and just one neighborhood, Wakefield - Allen is the 69th largest community in Nebraska. Wakefield - Allen has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
When you are in Wakefield - Allen, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.56% of Wakefield - Allen’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Wakefield - Allen is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Wakefield - Allen who work in office and administrative support (11.46%), management occupations (10.56%), and maintenance occupations (7.70%).
Also of interest is that Wakefield - Allen has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.74% 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.
As is often the case in a small town, Wakefield - Allen doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Wakefield - Allen is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.69% of adults 25 and older in Wakefield - Allen have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wakefield - Allen in 2022 was $27,956, 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 $111,824 for a family of four. However, Wakefield - Allen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wakefield - Allen is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wakefield - Allen home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wakefield - Allen residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Wakefield - Allen also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.76% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Wakefield - Allen include German, Irish, Swedish, English, and Czech.
The most common language spoken in Wakefield - Allen is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Wakefield - Allen, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 5.0% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 95.8% of America.
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, 7.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 38.6% have German ancestry.
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 Wakefield - Allen are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.5% 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, 30.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.7%), and 16.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 78.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (20.5%).
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 Wakefield - Allen, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (38.6%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (16.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.9%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (7.8%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.9%), among others. In addition, 12.8% 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 (42.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (75.1%) 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 (9.7%) and 7.4% 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.