Grand View is a tiny city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 465 people and just one neighborhood, Grand View is the 120th largest community in Idaho.
Grand View is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Grand View is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Grand View who work in sales jobs (16.29%), law enforcement and fire fighting (14.61%), and farm management occupations (11.80%).
You will also find that a lot of people in Grand View work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.
Grand View’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Grand View has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Grand View a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Grand View is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Grand View, the average commute to work is 32.13 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small city, Grand View doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Grand View has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.57% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Grand View in 2022 was $28,563, which is middle income relative to Idaho, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,252 for a family of four. However, Grand View contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Grand View is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Grand View home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Grand View residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Grand View also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.26% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Grand View include English, Irish, German, Danish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Grand View 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 Grand View, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 99.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.1% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.7%) living in the neighborhood.
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 33.2% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.1% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 6.6% have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.4% 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 99.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Grand View are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.0% 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, 27.8% 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 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.8%), and 16.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 82.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
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 Grand View, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (16.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.4%), and residents who report German roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (6.9%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (6.6%), among others.
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 (31.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.2%) 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 (6.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.