Hankinson - Lidgerwood is a very small town located in the state of North Dakota. With a population of 2,878 people and just one neighborhood, Hankinson - Lidgerwood is the 26th largest community in North Dakota. Hankinson - Lidgerwood has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Hankinson - Lidgerwood is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Hankinson - Lidgerwood is a town of managers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hankinson - Lidgerwood who work in management occupations (18.03%), office and administrative support (7.44%), and maintenance occupations (6.94%).
The percentage of adults in Hankinson - Lidgerwood with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.98% of adults in Hankinson - Lidgerwood have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Hankinson - Lidgerwood in 2022 was $35,607, which is middle income relative to North Dakota, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $142,428 for a family of four. However, Hankinson - Lidgerwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Hankinson - Lidgerwood is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Hankinson - Lidgerwood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hankinson - Lidgerwood residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Hankinson - Lidgerwood include German, Norwegian, Czech, Swedish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Hankinson - Lidgerwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish 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 Hankinson - Lidgerwood, 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 7 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.8% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 50.9% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 17.7% have Norwegian 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 Hankinson - Lidgerwood are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 63.0% of America'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, 36.3% 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 29.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.0%), and 10.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households. Some people also speak Polish (5.2%).
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 Hankinson - Lidgerwood, ND, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (50.9%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (17.7%), and residents who report Mexican roots (4.7%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (4.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.9%), 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 (42.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (8.7%) and 8.5% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.