Overview
Gadsden is a tiny town located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 571 people and just one neighborhood, Gadsden is the 163rd largest community in Arizona.
Occupations and Workforce
Gadsden is a blue-collar town, with 52.48% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Gadsden is a town of transportation and shipping workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gadsden who work in sales jobs (8.70%), farm management occupations (8.70%), and teaching (8.07%).
Setting & Lifestyle
In Gadsden, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 46.96 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit.
For a small town, Gadsden has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Gadsden exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.
Demographics
In terms of college education, the citizens of Gadsden rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.72% of adults 25 and older in Gadsden have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Gadsden in 2022 was $19,789, which is low income relative to Arizona and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $79,156 for a family of four.
Gadsden is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Gadsden 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 Gadsden, accounting for 100.00% of the town鈥檚 residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Gadsden residents report their race to be Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Gadsden include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Gadsden's cultural character, accounting for 46.99% of the town鈥檚 population.
The most common language spoken in Gadsden is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Italian.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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 蘑菇视频's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Occupations
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 蘑菇视频 analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.4% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Length of Commute
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 19.0% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than 蘑菇视频 found in 99.4% of all neighborhoods in America.
People
Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the neighborhood about it; they already know. 27.2% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than 蘑菇视频 found in 99.2% of American neighborhoods. Further 蘑菇视频 research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.
Modes of Transportation
More people ride the bus in this neighborhood each day to get to work than 98.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 23.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 65.0% have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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. 蘑菇视频's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Gadsden are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. 蘑菇视频's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 36.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.4% 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, 30.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.5%), and 14.9% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
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 Spanish, spoken by 55.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and Native American languages.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture 鈥� our learned behavior 鈥� 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 Gadsden, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (65.0%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (23.9%), and residents who report English roots (1.7%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (1.2%). In addition, 24.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
Getting to Work
How you get to work 鈥� car, bus, train or other means 鈥� 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 (25.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America. However, there is also a significant group of residents (19.0%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (63.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (20.0%) and 14.3% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors 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.
