Wadsworth - Nixon is a very small town located in the state of Nevada. With a population of 1,908 people and just one neighborhood, Wadsworth - Nixon is the 36th largest community in Nevada.
When you are in Wadsworth - Nixon, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.12% of Wadsworth - Nixon’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Wadsworth - Nixon is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wadsworth - Nixon who work in office and administrative support (11.02%), sales jobs (6.91%), and management occupations (6.74%).
A relatively large number of people in Wadsworth - Nixon telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.90% 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.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Wadsworth - Nixon has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Wadsworth - Nixon has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Wadsworth - Nixon than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Wadsworth - Nixon may be for you.
Being a small town, Wadsworth - Nixon does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Wadsworth - Nixon has a very low overall level of education: only 9.17% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Wadsworth - Nixon in 2022 was $23,620, which is low income relative to Nevada and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,480 for a family of four. However, Wadsworth - Nixon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wadsworth - Nixon is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wadsworth - Nixon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wadsworth - Nixon residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Wadsworth - Nixon also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.56% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Wadsworth - Nixon include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Wadsworth - Nixon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.
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.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Furthermore, the neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 96.2% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.
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, 54.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.3% 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 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Wadsworth - Nixon are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 39.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.9% 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, 38.3% 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 27.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (16.8%), and 14.6% 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 87.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages, Spanish and Italian.
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 Wadsworth - Nixon, NV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (54.7%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report German roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.2%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.7%) 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 (11.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.