Pender - Macy is a very small town located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 4,018 people and just one neighborhood, Pender - Macy is the 50th largest community in Nebraska.
Unlike some towns, Pender - Macy isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Pender - Macy are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pender - Macy is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pender - Macy who work in office and administrative support (12.73%), management occupations (9.80%), and teaching (9.62%).
Pender - Macy’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
The education level of Pender - Macy citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.99% of adults in Pender - Macy have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Pender - Macy in 2022 was $23,317, which is low income relative to Nebraska and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $93,268 for a family of four. However, Pender - Macy contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Pender - Macy is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pender - Macy home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pender - Macy residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Pender - Macy include German, Irish, Swedish, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Pender - Macy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
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.
The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 14.8% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 97.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.7%) living in the 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 19 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.0% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 47.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.9% 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 Pender - Macy are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.1% 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, 34.9% 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 24.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.8%), and 16.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.5%).
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 Pender - Macy, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (47.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (21.2%), and residents who report Mexican roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.4%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (4.2%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.0%) 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 (13.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.