Overview
Murray is a tiny village located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 500 people and just one neighborhood, Murray is the 183rd largest community in Nebraska.
Murray real estate is some of the most expensive in Nebraska, although Murray house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Murray is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.45% of the Murray workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Murray is a village of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Murray who work in office and administrative support (14.29%), sales jobs (12.70%), and food service (8.47%).
Also of interest is that Murray has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Setting & Lifestyle
Because of many things, Murray is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Murray a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The village鈥檚 good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Murray has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Murray鈥檚 overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
As is often the case in a small village, Murray doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The percentage of people in Murray who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.72% of adults in Murray have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Murray in 2022 was $33,527, which is lower middle income relative to Nebraska, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $134,108 for a family of four. However, Murray contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Murray home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Murray residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Murray include German, English, Irish, Czech, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Murray is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Murray, 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 蘑菇视频's exclusive analysis, with only 42 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.6% of America.
People
If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. 蘑菇视频's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 12.8% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Nebraska. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 34.7% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.
The Neighbors
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Murray are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. 蘑菇视频's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 82.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.4% 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 69.7% 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, 37.5% 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 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.3%), and 17.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.3%).
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 Murray, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (34.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.5%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (5.2%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (4.0%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (78.4%) 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 (7.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
