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Neola - Minden, IA

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Overview


Neola - Minden is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,386 people and just one neighborhood, Neola - Minden is the 232nd largest community in Iowa. Neola - Minden has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Neola - Minden is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Neola - Minden is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Neola - Minden who work in office and administrative support (13.39%), management occupations (9.86%), and sales jobs (8.02%).

A relatively large number of people in Neola - Minden telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.15% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Neola - Minden is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Neola - Minden a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Neola - Minden has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Neola - Minden’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

One downside of living in Neola - Minden is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Neola - Minden, the average commute to work is 30.72 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. However, it is a pedestrian-friendly town. Many of Neola - Minden’s neighborhoods are dense enough and have amenities close enough together that people find it feasible to get around on foot.

Neola - Minden 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.

Demographics

The population of Neola - Minden overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Neola - Minden, 21.20% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Neola - Minden in 2022 was $38,719, which is upper middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $154,876 for a family of four. However, Neola - Minden contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Neola - Minden home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Neola - Minden residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Neola - Minden include German, Irish, English, Danish, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Neola - Minden is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

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 93.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

People

If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 14.0% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Iowa. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 44.9% have German 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 Neola - Minden are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.5% 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 65.5% 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, 32.5% 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 32.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.4%), and 15.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Neola - Minden, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (44.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.3%), and residents who report English roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of Danish ancestry (5.3%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (2.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (80.6%) 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 (7.3%) . 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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