Ocheyedan - Ashton is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,584 people and just one neighborhood, Ocheyedan - Ashton is the 201st largest community in Iowa. Ocheyedan - Ashton has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Ocheyedan - Ashton is a blue-collar town, with 43.39% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Ocheyedan - Ashton is a town of managers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ocheyedan - Ashton who work in management occupations (17.44%), office and administrative support (9.90%), and farm management occupations (7.89%).
A relatively large number of people in Ocheyedan - Ashton telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.29% 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.
Overall, Ocheyedan - Ashton’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The percentage of people in Ocheyedan - Ashton with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.11% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ocheyedan - Ashton in 2022 was $41,010, which is wealthy relative to Iowa, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $164,040 for a family of four. However, Ocheyedan - Ashton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ocheyedan - Ashton is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ocheyedan - Ashton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ocheyedan - Ashton residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Ocheyedan - Ashton include German, Dutch, Norwegian, Irish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Ocheyedan - Ashton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 98.6% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 9 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
More people in choose to walk to work each day (11.7%) than almost any neighborhood in America. If you are attracted to the idea of being able to walk to work, this neighborhood could be a good choice.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 16.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 39.5% have German ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Ocheyedan - Ashton are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.4% 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, 35.5% 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 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.4%), and 12.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 Ocheyedan - Ashton, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.5%). There are also a number of people of Dutch ancestry (16.6%), and residents who report Mexican roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (7.0%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (4.8%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (72.8%) 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 (11.7%) and 7.1% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.