Marsing is a very small city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 1,260 people and just one neighborhood, Marsing is the 87th largest community in Idaho.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Marsing is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 55.92% of the Marsing workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Marsing is a city of farmers, fishers, or foresters, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Marsing who work in farm management occupations (33.01%), office and administrative support (8.74%), and management occupations (6.21%).
In addition, many people in Marsing have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.
The overall crime rate in Marsing is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
As is often the case in a small city, Marsing doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Marsing, just 6.26% 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 Marsing in 2022 was $22,392, 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 $89,568 for a family of four. However, Marsing contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Marsing is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Marsing 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 Marsing, accounting for 60.29% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Marsing residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Marsing include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Norwegian.
Marsing also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 31.11%.
The most common language spoken in Marsing is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
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 13.3% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.5%) living in the neighborhood.
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 Marsing are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.3% 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, 33.9% 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 22.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.9%), and 13.3% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 79.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (20.7%).
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 Marsing, ID, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (24.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.0%), and residents who report English roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.8%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.5%), among others. In addition, 14.1% 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (63.3%) 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 (15.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.