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Greenwood, DE

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Overview


Greenwood is a very small town located in the state of Delaware. With a population of 1,089 people and just one neighborhood, Greenwood is the 31st largest community in Delaware.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Greenwood is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Greenwood is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Greenwood who work in office and administrative support (17.73%), management occupations (11.05%), and food service (8.55%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Greenwood is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Greenwood, the average commute to work is 32.27 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Greenwood does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Greenwood with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.85% of adults in Greenwood have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Greenwood in 2022 was $31,252, which is lower middle income relative to Delaware, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $125,008 for a family of four. However, Greenwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Greenwood is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Greenwood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Greenwood residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Greenwood also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 26.83% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Greenwood include Haitian, English, European, Irish, and German.

In addition, Greenwood has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (22.06%).

The most common language spoken in Greenwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

People

Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Greenwood neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Haitian and Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry and 1.7% have Portuguese ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Greenwood are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.4% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 66.2% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 37.9% 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 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.5%), and 12.5% 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 84.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Greenwood, DE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.4%), and residents who report Haitian roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (8.2%), along with some German ancestry residents (7.9%), among others. In addition, 12.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (81.0%) 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 (10.7%) . 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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