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Cambridge - Arapahoe, NE

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Overview


Cambridge - Arapahoe is a very small town located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 4,575 people and just one neighborhood, Cambridge - Arapahoe is the 46th largest community in Nebraska. Cambridge - Arapahoe has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Cambridge - Arapahoe is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Cambridge - Arapahoe is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cambridge - Arapahoe who work in management occupations (15.28%), office and administrative support (10.27%), and sales jobs (6.26%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One of the benefits of Cambridge - Arapahoe is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.95 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

As is often the case in a small town, Cambridge - Arapahoe doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Cambridge - Arapahoe overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Cambridge - Arapahoe, 21.40% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Cambridge - Arapahoe in 2022 was $32,494, which is middle income relative to Nebraska and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $129,976 for a family of four. However, Cambridge - Arapahoe contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Cambridge - Arapahoe home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cambridge - Arapahoe residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Cambridge - Arapahoe include German, English, Irish, Swedish, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Cambridge - Arapahoe is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Cambridge - Arapahoe, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 6 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.9% of America.

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 5.1% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 34.8% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 3.5% have Dutch ancestry.

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 Cambridge - Arapahoe are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.9% of U.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, 36.1% 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 28.8% 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 12.0% 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 95.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

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 Cambridge - Arapahoe, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (34.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.6%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (3.7%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 (55.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (79.5%) 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 (9.4%) and 5.2% 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.


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