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Hanna - Medicine Bow, WY

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Overview

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.

Occupations and Workforce

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.

Setting & Lifestyle

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.

Demographics

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.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

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 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 37.9%, which is higher than 97.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 10.3% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

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.

The Neighbors

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 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.

Languages

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.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 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.

Getting to Work

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.

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