Moravia - Moulton is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,520 people and just one neighborhood, Moravia - Moulton is the 213th largest community in Iowa.
When you are in Moravia - Moulton, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.58% of Moravia - Moulton’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Moravia - Moulton is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Moravia - Moulton who work in management occupations (12.28%), sales jobs (11.19%), and healthcare (10.01%).
Moravia - Moulton 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.
In terms of college education, Moravia - Moulton is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.21% of adults 25 and older in Moravia - Moulton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Moravia - Moulton in 2022 was $36,952, which is middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $147,808 for a family of four. However, Moravia - Moulton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Moravia - Moulton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Moravia - Moulton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Moravia - Moulton include German, English, Irish, Dutch, and European.
The most common language spoken in Moravia - Moulton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 16 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 4.7% 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 Moravia - Moulton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.4% 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 59.8% 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, 34.5% 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 33.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.4%), and 9.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% 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 Moravia - Moulton, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (4.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.3%) 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 (7.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.