Elgin - Clearwater is a very small town located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 2,601 people and just one neighborhood, Elgin - Clearwater is the 93rd largest community in Nebraska. Elgin - Clearwater has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Elgin - Clearwater is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Elgin - Clearwater is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Elgin - Clearwater who work in management occupations (21.84%), healthcare (8.46%), and sales jobs (7.94%).
Being a small town, Elgin - Clearwater does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Elgin - Clearwater citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.09% of adults 25 and older in Elgin - Clearwater have a college degree.
The per capita income in Elgin - Clearwater in 2022 was $34,931, which is middle income relative to Nebraska and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $139,724 for a family of four. However, Elgin - Clearwater contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Elgin - Clearwater home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Elgin - Clearwater residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Elgin - Clearwater include German, Irish, Swedish, English, and Czech.
The most common language spoken in Elgin - Clearwater is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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.
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 6.0% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 43.9% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 5.9% have Swedish ancestry.
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 Elgin - Clearwater are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.5% 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 56.6% 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, 43.3% 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 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.3%), and 10.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.6%).
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 Elgin - Clearwater, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (43.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report Swedish roots (5.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.5%), along with some Danish ancestry residents (1.4%), among others.
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 (45.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.1%) 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 (12.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.