Norwalk is a somewhat small city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 6,971 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Norwalk is the 54th largest community in Iowa.

Unlike some cities, Norwalk isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Norwalk are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Norwalk is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Norwalk who work in office and administrative support jobs (22.40%), management occupations (9.05%), and sales jobs (8.92%).

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

Because of many things, Norwalk is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Norwalk really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Norwalk perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Norwalk is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Norwalk 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. 99.04% 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, Norwalk does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Norwalk Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Norwalk 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: 25.09% of adults in Norwalk have a college degree.

The per capita income in Norwalk in 2000 was $21,895, which is wealthy relative to Iowa, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $87,580 for a family of four. However, Norwalk contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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