Cedar Rapids is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 120,563 people and 27 constituent neighborhoods, Cedar Rapids is the second largest community in Iowa.

Unlike some cities, Cedar Rapids isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Cedar Rapids are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cedar Rapids is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cedar Rapids who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.24%), sales jobs (11.92%), and management occupations (7.91%).

Also of interest is that Cedar Rapids has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One of the benefits of Cedar Rapids is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.58 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Cedar Rapids Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Cedar Rapids is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 28.38% of adults in Cedar Rapids have a college degree.

The per capita income in Cedar Rapids in 2000 was $22,589, which is wealthy relative to Iowa, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $90,356 for a family of four.

The people who call Cedar Rapids home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Cedar Rapids is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cedar Rapids include German, Irish, English, Czech, and Norwegian.

The most common language spoken in Cedar Rapids is English. Some people also speak Spanish.