Fullerton - Genoa is a very small town located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 3,326 people and just one neighborhood, Fullerton - Genoa is the 67th largest community in Nebraska. Much of the housing stock in Fullerton - Genoa was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns, Fullerton - Genoa isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Fullerton - Genoa are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Fullerton - Genoa is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fullerton - Genoa who work in management occupations (18.73%), office and administrative support (11.81%), and food service (7.89%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.32% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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, Fullerton - Genoa is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Fullerton - Genoa a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Fullerton - Genoa has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Fullerton - Genoa’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
Fullerton - Genoa is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Fullerton - Genoa who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.99% of the adults in Fullerton - Genoa have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Fullerton - Genoa in 2022 was $32,568, which is middle income relative to Nebraska and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $130,272 for a family of four. However, Fullerton - Genoa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Fullerton - Genoa home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fullerton - Genoa residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Fullerton - Genoa include German, Polish, Irish, English, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Fullerton - Genoa is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Fullerton - Genoa, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 8 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.6% of America.
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 96.8% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 20.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 8.7% have Swedish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 18.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Fullerton - Genoa are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.1% 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, 38.7% 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 24.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.3%), and 15.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households. Some people also speak Polish (18.1%).
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 Fullerton - Genoa, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (41.4%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (20.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.2%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (8.7%), 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 (41.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (73.1%) 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 (9.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.