Albert City - Marathon is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 1,381 people and just one neighborhood, Albert City - Marathon is the 317th largest community in Iowa. Albert City - Marathon has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Albert City - Marathon is a blue-collar town, with 41.79% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Albert City - Marathon is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Albert City - Marathon who work in healthcare (9.94%), management occupations (9.94%), and sales jobs (7.64%).
Albert City - Marathon 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 adults in Albert City - Marathon who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.45% of the adults in Albert City - Marathon have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Albert City - Marathon in 2022 was $40,227, which is upper middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $160,908 for a family of four. However, Albert City - Marathon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Albert City - Marathon is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Albert City - Marathon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Albert City - Marathon residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Albert City - Marathon include German, Swedish, Irish, Dutch, and English.
The most common language spoken in Albert City - Marathon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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.
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 97.9% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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 11 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.8% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 15.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 5.4% have Dutch ancestry.
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 Albert City - Marathon are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.4% 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, 35.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.0%), and 9.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.8%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Albert City - Marathon, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.9%). There are also a number of people of Swedish ancestry (15.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (6.1%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (5.4%), among others.
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 (36.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.9%) 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 (6.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.