Hanna - Medicine Bow is a very small town located in the state of Wyoming. With a population of 1,369 people and just one neighborhood, Hanna - Medicine Bow is the 46th largest community in Wyoming.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Hanna - Medicine Bow is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 51.19% of the Hanna - Medicine Bow workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Hanna - Medicine Bow is a town of construction workers and builders, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hanna - Medicine Bow who work in management occupations (17.72%), farm management occupations (10.32%), and healthcare (9.39%).
Also of interest is that Hanna - Medicine Bow has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.07% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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!) Hanna - Medicine Bow 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. Hanna - Medicine Bow has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hanna - Medicine Bow than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hanna - Medicine Bow may be for you.
Being a small town, Hanna - Medicine Bow does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Hanna - Medicine Bow who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.77% of the adults in Hanna - Medicine Bow have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Hanna - Medicine Bow in 2022 was $36,923, which is middle income relative to Wyoming and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $147,692 for a family of four. However, Hanna - Medicine Bow contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Hanna - Medicine Bow is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Hanna - Medicine Bow home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hanna - Medicine Bow residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Hanna - Medicine Bow also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.34% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Hanna - Medicine Bow include Irish, English, German, Swedish, and Danish.
The most common language spoken in Hanna - Medicine Bow 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 Hanna - Medicine Bow, 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 1 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 99.6% of America.
In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 37.9% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
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 99.1% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 3.9% have Danish ancestry.
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 Hanna - Medicine Bow are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.1% 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 59.5% of U.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, 40.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 34.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing (10.3%), and 9.1% 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 95.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Polish 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 Hanna - Medicine Bow, WY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (22.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.9%), and residents who report German roots (13.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (10.9%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (8.1%), 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 (48.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (73.6%) 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 (12.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.