Castleford is a tiny city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 226 people and just one neighborhood, Castleford is the 137th largest community in Idaho.
When you are in Castleford, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 71.88% of Castleford’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Castleford is a city of farmers, fishers, or foresters, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Castleford who work in farm management occupations (25.00%), office and administrative support (12.50%), and sales jobs (4.17%).
Another important characteristic of Castleford is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
The overall crime rate in Castleford is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Castleford is worth considering.
Castleford is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Castleford ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.60% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Castleford in 2022 was $20,529, which is low income relative to Idaho and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $82,116 for a family of four.
Castleford is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Castleford home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Castleford residents report their race to be White. Castleford also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 49.18% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Castleford include English, German, Portuguese, Swedish, and Irish.
In addition, Castleford has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (24.04%).
The most common language spoken in Castleford 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.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 9.7% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 40 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.9% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 3.6% have Portuguese 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 Castleford are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.1% of U.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, 32.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 23.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.6%), and 14.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (11.9%).
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 Castleford, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (14.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.1%), and residents who report German roots (10.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.1%), along with some Portuguese ancestry residents (3.6%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.2%) 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 (7.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.