New Albin is a tiny city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 427 people and just one neighborhood, New Albin is the 406th largest community in Iowa. New Albin has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.
Unlike some cities, New Albin isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in New Albin are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, New Albin is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in New Albin who work in sales jobs (17.75%), office and administrative support (14.86%), and food service (11.96%).
Overall, New Albin’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Being a small city, New Albin does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of New Albin have a very low rate of college education: just 9.12% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in New Albin in 2022 was $29,813, which is low income relative to Iowa, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $119,252 for a family of four. However, New Albin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call New Albin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Albin residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in New Albin include German, Irish, Norwegian, English, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in New Albin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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 11 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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, 21.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 49.6% 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 New Albin are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.1% 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 71.1% 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, 37.4% 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 25.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.9%), and 14.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in New Albin, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (49.6%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (21.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (20.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.6%), along with some Danish ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (78.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (8.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.