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Nashua, IA

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Overview


Nashua is a very small city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 1,508 people and just one neighborhood, Nashua is the 308th largest community in Iowa. Much of the housing stock in Nashua was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Nashua, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.83% of Nashua’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Nashua is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Nashua who work in office and administrative support (14.80%), sales jobs (9.55%), and management occupations (8.59%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small city, Nashua does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Nashua rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.06% of adults 25 and older in Nashua have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Nashua in 2022 was $31,857, which is lower middle income relative to Iowa, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $127,428 for a family of four. However, Nashua contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Nashua home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Nashua residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Nashua include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Nashua is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 32 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 58.2% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 7.0% have Norwegian 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 Nashua are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.3% 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 67.1% 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, 37.0% 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 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.4%), and 17.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Nashua, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (58.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.2%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.5%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.0%) 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 (9.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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