About Earling

Earling is a tiny city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 924 people and just one neighborhood, Earling is the 309th largest community in Iowa. Earling has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Earling is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Earling is a city of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Earling who work in office and administrative support jobs (10.93%), farm management (8.43%), and sales jobs (6.15%).

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

Another important characteristic of Earling is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.

A relatively large number of people in Earling telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.86% 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.

Earling is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Earling isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 98.39% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

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

Earling Information and Demographics

The citizens of Earling have a very low rate of college education: just 8.52% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 14.96% for all cities.

The per capita income in Earling in 2000 was $15,325, which is low income relative to Iowa, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $61,300 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Earling is English.