Meeteetse is a tiny town located in the state of Wyoming. With a population of 314 people and just one neighborhood, Meeteetse is the 59th largest community in Wyoming.
Meeteetse home prices are not only among the most expensive in Wyoming, but Meeteetse real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.
Meeteetse is a blue-collar town, with 35.75% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Meeteetse is a town of managers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Meeteetse who work in management occupations (11.73%), business and financial occupations (11.73%), and maintenance occupations (8.94%).
Of important note, Meeteetse is also a town of artists. Meeteetse has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Meeteetse’s character.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 23.16% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Meeteetse’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Meeteetse has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Meeteetse has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Meeteetse than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Meeteetse may be for you.
Meeteetse is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of people in Meeteetse who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 28.84% of adults in Meeteetse have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Meeteetse in 2022 was $25,237, which is low income relative to Wyoming, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,948 for a family of four. However, Meeteetse contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Meeteetse is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Meeteetse home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Meeteetse residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Meeteetse also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.44% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Meeteetse include English, German, Irish, French, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Meeteetse is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 2 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 99.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 98.5% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Astoundingly, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this single neighborhood has a higher concentration of married couples living here than 97.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Whether they have school-aged children or not, married couples are the rule in the neighborhood. If you are a married couple, you may find many people here with a similar lifestyle, and perhaps common interests. But if you are single, you might not find many other singles here.
In addition, if you are planning to retire in Wyoming, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Wyoming, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 97.5% of neighborhoods in WY. If a Wyoming retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 5.4% have Dutch 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 Meeteetse are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.9% 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, 33.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.8%), and 15.5% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.7%).
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 Meeteetse, WY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (19.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (8.7%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (6.8%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (66.0%) 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 (10.9%) and 6.8% 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.