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Lodgepole - Potter, NE

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Overview


Lodgepole - Potter is a very small town located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 3,050 people and just one neighborhood, Lodgepole - Potter is the 81st largest community in Nebraska. Lodgepole - Potter has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Lodgepole - Potter is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lodgepole - Potter is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lodgepole - Potter who work in management occupations (19.70%), office and administrative support (10.15%), and sales jobs (8.55%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.93% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Lodgepole - Potter is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Lodgepole - Potter a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Lodgepole - Potter has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Lodgepole - Potter’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Being a small town, Lodgepole - Potter does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Lodgepole - Potter is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 27.72% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Lodgepole - Potter in 2022 was $43,790, which is wealthy relative to Nebraska, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $175,160 for a family of four. However, Lodgepole - Potter contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Lodgepole - Potter is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Langs. of India.

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

Real Estate

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 3 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.9% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 46.6% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 1.9% have Danish ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Lodgepole - Potter are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.9% 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 58.1% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 44.0% 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 22.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.6%), and 13.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Lodgepole - Potter, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (46.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report English roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (3.6%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (3.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (39.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (69.7%) 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 (12.5%) . 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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