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Wibaux, MT

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Overview


Wibaux is a tiny town located in the state of Montana. With a population of 449 people and just one neighborhood, Wibaux is the 120th largest community in Montana.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Wibaux, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.59% of Wibaux’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Wibaux is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Wibaux who work in office and administrative support (12.77%), sales jobs (9.93%), and teaching (9.93%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 15.25% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

The overall crime rate in Wibaux is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Wibaux has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Wibaux has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Wibaux than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Wibaux may be for you.

As is often the case in a small town, Wibaux doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Wibaux is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 26.52% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Wibaux in 2022 was $35,664, which is upper middle income relative to Montana, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $142,656 for a family of four. However, Wibaux contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Wibaux home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wibaux residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wibaux include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Wibaux is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Wibaux, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 1 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 99.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Car Ownership

Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.0% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.6% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 13.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 11.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Wibaux are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.7% 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, 39.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.5%), and 12.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 96.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish, Italian and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Wibaux, MT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.9%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (13.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (11.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (7.8%), 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 (49.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (80.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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