Dakota City is a very small city located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 2,025 people and just one neighborhood, Dakota City is the 119th largest community in Nebraska.
When you are in Dakota City, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.05% of Dakota City’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Dakota City is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dakota City who work in sales jobs (16.78%), office and administrative support (12.71%), and healthcare suport services (4.50%).
One of the benefits of Dakota City is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.86 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
As is often the case in a small city, Dakota City doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Dakota City, just 11.35% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Dakota City in 2022 was $26,405, which is low income relative to Nebraska, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $105,620 for a family of four. However, Dakota City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Dakota City is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Dakota City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dakota City residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Dakota City also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 43.09% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Dakota City include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Dakota City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Laotian.
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.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (2.1%) living in the neighborhood.
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 33.9% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.5% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 95.0% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish 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 Dakota City are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 32.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.4% 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, 41.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.4%), and 15.9% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 72.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (22.8%).
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 Dakota City, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (33.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (24.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (6.3%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.8%), among others. In addition, 10.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (50.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.3%) 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 (12.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.