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What are the risks of violent crime here?
Is the risk of home break-ins or other property crimes increasing?
Does real estate here hold its value?
Are the trends in local vacancies or unemployment concerning?
...and dozens more.
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Ackley - Steamboat Rock is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,419 people and just one neighborhood, Ackley - Steamboat Rock is the 223rd largest community in Iowa. Ackley - Steamboat Rock 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
Ackley - Steamboat Rock is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Ackley - Steamboat Rock is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ackley - Steamboat Rock who work in sales jobs (11.55%), office and administrative support (10.13%), and teaching (8.80%).
Setting & Lifestyle
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Ackley - Steamboat Rock 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. Ackley - Steamboat Rock has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ackley - Steamboat Rock than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ackley - Steamboat Rock may be for you.
Being a small town, Ackley - Steamboat Rock does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
The education level of Ackley - Steamboat Rock citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.19% of adults 25 and older in Ackley - Steamboat Rock have a college degree.
The per capita income in Ackley - Steamboat Rock in 2022 was $32,515, which is lower middle income relative to Iowa, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $130,060 for a family of four. However, Ackley - Steamboat Rock contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ackley - Steamboat Rock is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ackley - Steamboat Rock home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ackley - Steamboat Rock residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ackley - Steamboat Rock include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Ackley - Steamboat Rock is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
When 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.
Occupations
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 3.6% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 24 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.9% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 43.9% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 4.5% have Dutch ancestry.
The Neighbors
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Ackley - Steamboat Rock are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 31.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.0%), and 13.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.0%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Ackley - Steamboat Rock, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (43.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.6%), and residents who report English roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (7.1%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (5.6%), among others.
Getting to Work
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.0%) 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 (10.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
