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Joseph City, AZ

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Overview


Joseph City is a very small town located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 1,307 people and just one neighborhood, Joseph City is the 140th largest community in Arizona.

Occupations and Workforce

Joseph City is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Joseph City is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Joseph City who work in office and administrative support (19.30%), law enforcement and fire fighting (13.09%), and teaching (11.20%).

Also of interest is that Joseph City has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Joseph City 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. Joseph City has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Joseph City than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Joseph City may be for you.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Joseph City spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.52 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Joseph City rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.54% of adults 25 and older in Joseph City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Joseph City in 2022 was $19,906, which is lower middle income relative to Arizona, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $79,624 for a family of four. However, Joseph City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Joseph City is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Joseph City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Joseph City residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Joseph City also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.69% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Joseph City include English, German, Irish, Swedish, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Joseph City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Navajo.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

People

An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.3% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.

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 4 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Car Ownership

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.7% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.0% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 2.6% have Danish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Joseph City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.2% 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, 26.6% 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 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.9%), and 21.4% 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 75.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.

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 Joseph City, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (31.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.6%), and residents who report German roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (9.0%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (7.7%), 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 (53.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (77.7%) 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 (14.4%) . 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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