Sutton - Harvard is a very small town located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 3,433 people and just one neighborhood, Sutton - Harvard is the 62nd largest community in Nebraska. Much of the housing stock in Sutton - Harvard was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns, Sutton - Harvard isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Sutton - Harvard are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sutton - Harvard is a town of professionals, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sutton - Harvard who work in management occupations (16.15%), office and administrative support (8.98%), and healthcare (8.51%).
Because of many things, Sutton - Harvard is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Sutton - Harvard really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Sutton - Harvard perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
As is often the case in a small town, Sutton - Harvard doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Sutton - Harvard overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Sutton - Harvard, 23.98% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Sutton - Harvard in 2022 was $39,717, which is wealthy relative to Nebraska, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $158,868 for a family of four. However, Sutton - Harvard contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Sutton - Harvard is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Sutton - Harvard home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sutton - Harvard residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Sutton - Harvard also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.05% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Sutton - Harvard include German, Irish, English, Swedish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Sutton - Harvard 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.
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 14 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.1% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 35.5% have German 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 Sutton - Harvard are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.9% 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, 39.2% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.9%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian and Polish.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Sutton - Harvard, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (35.5%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.9%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (5.1%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.5%) 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 (8.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.