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Kimberly, ID

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Overview


Kimberly is a somewhat small city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 5,359 people and just one neighborhood, Kimberly is the 39th largest community in Idaho.

Kimberly real estate is some of the most expensive in Idaho, although Kimberly house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Kimberly is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Kimberly is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Kimberly who work in office and administrative support (20.44%), sales jobs (8.91%), and food service (7.82%).

A relatively large number of people in Kimberly telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.03% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 19.13 minutes getting to work every day.

Kimberly is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The education level of Kimberly citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.56% of adults 25 and older in Kimberly have a college degree.

The per capita income in Kimberly in 2022 was $23,574, which is lower middle income relative to Idaho, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $94,296 for a family of four. However, Kimberly contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Kimberly is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Kimberly home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kimberly residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Kimberly also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 32.47% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Kimberly include Irish, English, German, Italian, and Scottish.

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

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.

Occupations

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 96.2% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

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 Kimberly are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 66.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 25.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.4% 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, 38.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 21.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.3%), and 16.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 84.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (15.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Kimberly, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.0%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (17.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (9.2%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.5%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.8%) 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 (9.3%) . 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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