Scribner - Hooper is a very small town located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 4,575 people and just one neighborhood, Scribner - Hooper is the 44th largest community in Nebraska. Scribner - Hooper has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Scribner - Hooper is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.95% of the Scribner - Hooper workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Scribner - Hooper is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Scribner - Hooper who work in office and administrative support (11.32%), management occupations (10.90%), and teaching (8.11%).
Also of interest is that Scribner - Hooper has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Because of many things, Scribner - Hooper is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Scribner - Hooper a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Scribner - Hooper has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Scribner - Hooper’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
The percentage of adults in Scribner - Hooper who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.07% of the adults in Scribner - Hooper have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Scribner - Hooper in 2022 was $34,802, which is upper middle income relative to Nebraska, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $139,208 for a family of four. However, Scribner - Hooper contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Scribner - Hooper is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Scribner - Hooper home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Scribner - Hooper residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Scribner - Hooper include German, Irish, Czech, Swedish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Scribner - Hooper is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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 95.7% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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 21 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.5% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 40.2% have German ancestry.
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 Scribner - Hooper are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.9% 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, 36.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 32.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.6%), and 13.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (8.7%).
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 Scribner - Hooper, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (40.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report Mexican roots (8.8%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (5.2%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.7%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.2%) 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 (12.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.