Spirit Lake is a very small city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 2,479 people and just one neighborhood, Spirit Lake is the 72nd largest community in Idaho. Much of the housing stock in Spirit Lake was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Spirit Lake economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Spirit Lake, where the median household income is $60,938.00.
Spirit Lake home prices are not only among the most expensive in Idaho, but Spirit Lake real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.
Spirit Lake is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Spirit Lake is a city of sales and office workers, managers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Spirit Lake who work in sales jobs (14.62%), management occupations (12.52%), and office and administrative support (6.85%).
A relatively large number of people in Spirit Lake telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.57% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Because of many things, Spirit Lake 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, Spirit Lake really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Spirit Lake 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.
In Spirit Lake, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.84 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Spirit Lake 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, the citizens of Spirit Lake rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.29% of adults 25 and older in Spirit Lake have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Spirit Lake in 2022 was $30,898, which is upper middle income relative to Idaho, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $123,592 for a family of four. However, Spirit Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Spirit Lake is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Spirit Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Spirit Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Spirit Lake include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Spirit Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Spirit Lake, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 39.7% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.1% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Astoundingly, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this single neighborhood has a higher concentration of married couples living here than 97.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Whether they have school-aged children or not, married couples are the rule in the neighborhood. If you are a married couple, you may find many people here with a similar lifestyle, and perhaps common interests. But if you are single, you might not find many other singles here.
One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 25.2% have English 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 Spirit Lake are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 72.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.7% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 56.0% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 37.1% 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 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.4%), and 11.8% 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 97.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Spirit Lake, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (25.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (19.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (8.0%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (6.2%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (73.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.