American Falls is a very small city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 4,781 people and just one neighborhood, American Falls is the 40th largest community in Idaho.
When you are in American Falls, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.05% of American Falls’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, American Falls is a city of sales and office workers, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in American Falls who work in farm management occupations (16.14%), management occupations (14.76%), and office and administrative support (12.56%).
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of American Falls spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.06 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
As is often the case in a small city, American Falls doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of American Falls are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.69% of adults in American Falls have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in American Falls in 2022 was $22,568, which is low income relative to Idaho and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $90,272 for a family of four. However, American Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
American Falls is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call American Falls home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in American Falls, accounting for 48.10% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of American Falls residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in American Falls include English, German, Italian, Polish, and Irish.
In addition, American Falls has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (16.89%).
The most common language spoken in American Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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.
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 99.7% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 12 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 American Falls are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.4% 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 69.4% of America'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, 31.1% 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 24.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing (19.7%), and 12.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 64.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (33.5%).
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 American Falls, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (35.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (20.3%), and residents who report German roots (9.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.7%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (4.6%), among others. In addition, 15.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (52.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.1%) 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 (10.8%) and 6.6% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.