Hansen is a very small city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 1,097 people and just one neighborhood, Hansen is the 92nd largest community in Idaho.
Hansen is a blue-collar town, with 39.78% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Hansen is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hansen who work in maintenance occupations (18.78%), sales jobs (8.10%), and farm management occupations (7.00%).
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Hansen has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Hansen has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hansen than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hansen may be for you.
In Hansen, just 10.31% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Hansen in 2022 was $19,562, which is low income relative to Idaho and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $78,248 for a family of four. However, Hansen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Hansen also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.21% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Hansen is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Hansen home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hansen residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Hansen also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 32.49% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Hansen include English, German, European, Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Hansen 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.
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 95.8% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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 Hansen are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 40.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.0% 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, 30.4% 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 29.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (28.7%), and 7.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 78.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (21.3%).
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 Hansen, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (26.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.9%), and residents who report German roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.2%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.8%) 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 (8.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.