Bliss is a tiny city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 265 people and just one neighborhood, Bliss is the 130th largest community in Idaho.
Bliss is a blue-collar town, with 55.56% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Bliss is a city of farmers, fishers, or foresters, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bliss who work in farm management occupations (21.30%), management occupations (14.81%), and sales jobs (12.96%).
Overall, Bliss’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Bliss has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bliss a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Bliss is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Bliss, the average commute to work is 30.40 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Bliss is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In Bliss, just 8.05% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Bliss in 2022 was $25,634, which is lower middle income relative to Idaho, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,536 for a family of four.
Bliss is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bliss home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bliss residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Bliss also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 42.86% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Bliss include English, German, Irish, French, and Norwegian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Bliss's cultural character, accounting for 21.83% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in Bliss is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 45.3% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.2% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
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 97.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 30.8% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 5.0% have Native American 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 Bliss are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.0% 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 55.2% 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, 42.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 22.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.9%), and 12.1% 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 86.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Bliss, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (30.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (21.4%), and residents who report Mexican roots (11.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.2%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (5.0%), 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 (47.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (60.8%) 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 (17.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.