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Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt, IA

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Overview


Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 1,798 people and just one neighborhood, Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt is the 281st largest community in Iowa. Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.37% of the Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt who work in management occupations (13.57%), sales jobs (10.01%), and office and administrative support (7.79%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.38% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt 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, Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, 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.

Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The education level of Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.32% of adults 25 and older in Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt have a college degree.

The per capita income in Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt in 2018 was $37,312, which is upper middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $149,248 for a family of four. However, Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.25% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt include German, Irish, English, Swedish, and Norwegian.

The most common language spoken in Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 13 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.3% of America.

People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.0%) living in the neighborhood.

In addition, if you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in IA, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 85.4% of the neighborhoods in Iowa. If you are considering retiring to Iowa, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 7.5% have Swedish ancestry.

The Neighbors

How 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 neighborhood in Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.8% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 59.2% of America's neighborhoods.

The 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 neighborhood, 34.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.8%), and 10.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (11.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston'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 neighborhood in Sioux Rapids - Rembrandt, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (38.3%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (13.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (10.2%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (7.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

How 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 neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.8%) 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 (8.1%) . 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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