Roberts is a tiny city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 562 people and just one neighborhood, Roberts is the 117th largest community in Idaho.
When you are in Roberts, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 53.43% of Roberts’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Roberts is a city of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Roberts who work in maintenance occupations (10.78%), office and administrative support (8.33%), and food service (7.84%).
The overall crime rate in Roberts 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.
Being a small city, Roberts does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Roberts is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.79% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Roberts in 2022 was $20,464, which is low income relative to Idaho and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $81,856 for a family of four. However, Roberts contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Roberts is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Roberts home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Roberts, accounting for 49.89% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Roberts residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Roberts include Scottish, German, European, English, and Irish.
Roberts also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 17.57%.
The most common language spoken in Roberts is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 99.1% 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 4 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.4% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 4.3% have Scots-Irish 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 Roberts are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.1% 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, 28.6% 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 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.1%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 76.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (23.7%).
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 Roberts, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (23.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (20.0%), and residents who report German roots (12.9%), and some of the residents are also of Swiss ancestry (5.8%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.7%), among others. In addition, 11.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (34.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (63.7%) 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 (18.2%) and 6.2% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work 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.