Marsing is a very small city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 1,256 people and just one neighborhood, Marsing is the 87th largest community in Idaho.
Marsing is a blue-collar town, with 55.92% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Marsing is a city of farmers, fishers, or foresters, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Marsing who work in farm management occupations (33.01%), office and administrative support (8.74%), and management occupations (6.21%).
In addition, many people in Marsing have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.
As is often the case in a small city, Marsing doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Marsing have a very low rate of college education: just 6.26% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Marsing in 2022 was $22,392, 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 $89,568 for a family of four. However, Marsing contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Marsing is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Marsing home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Marsing, accounting for 60.29% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Marsing residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Marsing include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Norwegian.
In addition, Marsing has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (31.11%).
The most common language spoken in Marsing is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 13.3% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.5%) living in the neighborhood.
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 Marsing are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.3% 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, 33.9% 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 22.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.9%), and 13.3% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 79.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (20.7%).
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 Marsing, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (24.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.0%), and residents who report English roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.8%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.5%), among others. In addition, 14.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (63.3%) 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 (15.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.