McGregor - Marquette is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,844 people and just one neighborhood, McGregor - Marquette is the 179th largest community in Iowa. McGregor - Marquette has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
When you are in McGregor - Marquette, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.49% of McGregor - Marquette’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, McGregor - Marquette is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in McGregor - Marquette who work in management occupations (19.71%), office and administrative support (11.74%), and sales jobs (7.45%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.65% 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.
McGregor - Marquette 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 education level of McGregor - Marquette citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.28% of adults 25 and older in McGregor - Marquette have a college degree.
The per capita income in McGregor - Marquette in 2022 was $36,660, which is middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $146,640 for a family of four. However, McGregor - Marquette contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call McGregor - Marquette home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McGregor - Marquette residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in McGregor - Marquette include German, Irish, Norwegian, English, and Czech.
The most common language spoken in McGregor - Marquette is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 McGregor - Marquette, 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 94.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 14.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 42.0% have German 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 McGregor - Marquette are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.3% 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, 36.3% 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 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.9%), and 14.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.0%).
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 McGregor - Marquette, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (42.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.7%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (14.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.8%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 (44.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.7%) 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.