Maquoketa, IA real estate and demographic information

About Maquoketa

Maquoketa is a somewhat small city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 6,124 people and four constituent neighborhoods, Maquoketa is the 62nd largest community in Iowa.

When you are in Maquoketa, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.23% of Maquoketa’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Maquoketa is a city of sales and office workers, service providers and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Maquoketa who work in office and administrative support (11.82%), management occupations (9.56%) and sales jobs (9.08%).

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Maquoketa has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Maquoketa has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Maquoketa than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Maquoketa may be for you.

One of the benefits of Maquoketa is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.90 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.

Maquoketa Information and Demographics

In Maquoketa, just 12.95% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Maquoketa in 2010 was $18,580, 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 $74,320 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Maquoketa is English.