White Sulphur Springs is a very small city located in the state of Montana. With a population of 1,022 people and just one neighborhood, White Sulphur Springs is the 94th largest community in Montana. White Sulphur Springs has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.
Unlike some cities, White Sulphur Springs isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in White Sulphur Springs are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, White Sulphur Springs is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in White Sulphur Springs who work in teaching (15.93%), office and administrative support (11.71%), and food service (11.52%).
In addition, many people in White Sulphur Springs 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.
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that White Sulphur Springs has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.
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, White Sulphur Springs has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes White Sulphur Springs a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small city, White Sulphur Springs doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of White Sulphur Springs are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 24.88% of adults in White Sulphur Springs having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in White Sulphur Springs in 2022 was $31,196, which is middle income relative to Montana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $124,784 for a family of four. However, White Sulphur Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call White Sulphur Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of White Sulphur Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in White Sulphur Springs include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in White Sulphur Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 White Sulphur Springs, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 1 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 99.5% of America.
In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 38.6%, which is higher than 97.4% 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 99.2% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Furthermore, the neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 96.6% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 7.1% have Dutch ancestry.
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 White Sulphur Springs are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.7% of U.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, 40.5% 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 21.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions (14.3%), and 13.7% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households.
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 White Sulphur Springs, MT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (17.1%), and residents who report German roots (15.5%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (7.1%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (6.7%), 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 (54.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.4%) 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 (6.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.