Found within zip codes: 51111, 51054, 51106
Popular real estate near Sioux City, IA (City Center)
Median real estate prices in the City Center of Sioux City are $94,065, which is more expensive than 37.7% of the neighborhoods in Iowa and 22.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
Average rental prices in Sioux City City Center are currently $436, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price then 61.3% of Iowa neighborhoods.
Sioux City City Center is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Sioux City, Iowa.
Real estate in the City Center of Sioux City, IA is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) apartment complexes/high-rise apartments and single-family homes. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the City Center neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940.
Home and apartment vacancy rates are 8.4% in Sioux City City Center. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 46.0% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood CharacteristicsWhen you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Notable & Unique: DiversityDid you know that the Sioux City City Center neighborhood has more Native American and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 8.1% have Norwegian ancestry.
Sioux City City Center is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Navajo at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
Notable & Unique: Migration/StabilityDo you like to be surrounded by people from all over the country or world, with different perspectives and life experiences? Or do you instead prefer to be in a neighborhood where most residents have lived there for a long time, creating a sense of cohesiveness? NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood stands out among American neighborhoods for the uniqueness of the mobility of its residents. In the Sioux City City Center neighborhood, a greater proportion of the residents living here today did not live here five years ago than is found in 95.8% of U.S. Neighborhoods. This neighborhood, more than almost any other in America, has new residents from other areas.
Notable & Unique: Real EstateIn addition, renter-occupied real estate is dominant in the Sioux City City Center neighborhood. The percentage of rental real estate here, according to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, is 89.4%, which is higher than 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America. If you were to buy and live in the property you bought here, you would be almost alone in doing so.
The Neighbors The Neighbors: IncomeHow 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 City Center neighborhood in Sioux City are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The Neighbors: OccupationsThe old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place. In the Sioux City City Center neighborhood, 35.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.4%), and 18.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The Neighbors: Ethnicity / AncestryBoston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today. In the City Center neighborhood in Sioux City, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (21.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (16.4%) , and residents who report Norwegian roots (8.1%) , and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.1%) , along with some Native American ancestry residents (5.0%), among others. In addition, 21.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
The Neighbors: LanguagesThe 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 Sioux City City Center neighborhood is English, spoken by 73.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Navajo.
Getting to WorkHow you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in Sioux City City Center neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (13.6%) and 6.0% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work 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.
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| RENTAL PRICE | Low cost relative to IA, very low cost relative to the nation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NEIGHBORHOOD LOOK, FEEL, & CHARACTER | DETAILS |
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| THE SETTING | Suburban (based on population density) |
| TYPE OF HOMES / DWELLINGS | Mostly Complexes/high rise apartments, some Single-family homes, some Small apartment buildings, some Rowhouses & attached homes and a few Mobile homes |
| SIZE OF HOMES / DWELLINGS | Mostly Small dwellings (1, 2, or no bedrooms), some Medium-sized dwellings (3 or 4 bedrooms) and a few Large dwellings (4 or 5 bedrooms) |
| AGE OF HOMES / DWELLINGS | Mostly Well established older homes (Built 1940 - 1969), some Historic homes (Built 1939 or earlier), some Established but not old (Built 1970 – 1999) and some Newer Homes (Built 2000 or later) |
| HOMEOWNERSHIP | Mostly Renters |
| SPECIAL CHARACTER | Mostly Hip & Trendy |
| THE NEIGHBORS | DETAILS |
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| AGE & LIFESTYLE | Mostly Mixed ages, some Young singles-upwardly mobile (young, educated, professionally employed, and single), some Seniors (people 65 and over), some Families with children (family households with school-aged children) and some College students (people currently attending college) |
| EDUCATION LEVEL | Rating: 2 (5 is average for the U.S., 10 is most educated) |
| INCOME | Low income (among the 15% lowest income communities in America) |
| OCCUPATIONS | Mostly Manufacturing & Laborers, some Sales & Service workers, some Executive, managerial & professional, some Clerical, assistants & technical support and some Government employees |
| ETHNICITY / ANCESTRY | Mostly White (non-Hispanic), some Hispanic, some Mexican, some Irish ancestry, some Black, some East Asian and some Italian ancestry |
| LANGUAGES | Mostly English speaking and some Spanish speaking |
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| ETHNIC/RACIAL GROUPS | THIS DISTRICT | THIS STATE |
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| WHITE (NON-HISPANIC) (%) | 58.7 | 81.5 |
| BLACK (%) | 4.6 | 5.1 |
| HISPANIC (%) | 28.2 | 8.5 |
| ASIAN OR PACIFIC ISLANDER (%) | 3.8 | 2.0 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN OR NATIVE OF ALASKA (%) | 3.6 | 0.5 |
| ECONOMIC GROUPS | THIS DISTRICT | THIS STATE |
| ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED (%) | 56.7 | 38.0 |
| FOR THIS DISTRICT | PER STUDENT | TOTAL | % OF TOTAL |
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| INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES | $6,164 | $87,880,000 | 61.9 |
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| STUDENT | $308 | $4,386,000 | 3.1 |
| STAFF | $238 | $3,397,000 | 2.4 |
| GENERAL ADMINISTRATION | $174 | $2,478,000 | 1.7 |
| SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION | $554 | $7,894,000 | 5.6 |
| OPERATION | $680 | $9,695,000 | 6.8 |
| TRANSPORTATION | $221 | $3,156,000 | 2.2 |
| OTHER | $300 | $4,276,000 | 3.0 |
| TOTAL SUPPORT | $2,475 | $35,282,000 | 24.9 |
| NON-INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES | $1,316 | $18,758,000 | 13.2 |
| TOTAL EXPENDITURES | $9,954 | $141,920,000 | 100.0 |
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| ADULTS IN NEIGHBORHOOD WITH COLLEGE DEGREE OR HIGHER (%) | 9.7 |
| CHILDREN IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD LIVING IN POVERTY (%) | 33.0 |
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| WHITE (NON-HISPANIC) (%) | 90.5 | 81.5 |
| BLACK (%) | 2.4 | 5.1 |
| HISPANIC (%) | 2.7 | 8.5 |
| ASIAN OR PACIFIC ISLANDER (%) | 2.7 | 2.0 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN OR NATIVE OF ALASKA (%) | 1.3 | 0.5 |
| ECONOMIC GROUPS | THIS DISTRICT | THIS STATE |
| ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED (%) | 25.0 | 38.0 |
| FOR THIS DISTRICT | PER STUDENT | TOTAL | % OF TOTAL |
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| INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES | $6,252 | $8,940,000 | 57.0 |
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| STUDENT | $188 | $269,000 | 1.7 |
| STAFF | $303 | $433,000 | 2.8 |
| GENERAL ADMINISTRATION | $234 | $334,000 | 2.1 |
| SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION | $523 | $748,000 | 4.8 |
| OPERATION | $948 | $1,356,000 | 8.6 |
| TRANSPORTATION | $206 | $294,000 | 1.9 |
| OTHER | $127 | $181,000 | 1.2 |
| TOTAL SUPPORT | $2,528 | $3,615,000 | 23.0 |
| NON-INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES | $2,197 | $3,141,000 | 20.0 |
| TOTAL EXPENDITURES | $10,976 | $15,696,000 | 100.0 |
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| ADULTS IN NEIGHBORHOOD WITH COLLEGE DEGREE OR HIGHER (%) | 9.7 |
| CHILDREN IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD LIVING IN POVERTY (%) | 33.0 |
| PERIOD | TOTAL APPRECIATION | AVG. ANNUAL RATE | COMPARED TO IA* | COMPARED TO AMERICA* |
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| SINCE 1990 | 155.19% | 4.16% | 9 | 9 |
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