Ellsworth is a tiny city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 492 people and just one neighborhood, Ellsworth is the 394th largest community in Iowa. Ellsworth has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
Ellsworth is a blue-collar town, with 36.21% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Ellsworth is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Ellsworth who work in office and administrative support (11.11%), sales jobs (9.47%), and management occupations (7.41%).
Because of many things, Ellsworth is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Ellsworth really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Ellsworth perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
Being a small city, Ellsworth does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Ellsworth who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.83% of the adults in Ellsworth have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ellsworth in 2022 was $27,135, which is low income relative to Iowa, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $108,540 for a family of four. However, Ellsworth contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ellsworth home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ellsworth residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Ellsworth include German, Norwegian, Irish, English, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Ellsworth is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Ellsworth, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 9.3% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Iowa. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 2.9% have Danish 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 Ellsworth are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.2% 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 61.0% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 41.3% 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 24.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.2%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households.
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 Ellsworth, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (34.0%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (21.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.4%) 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 (5.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.