Dixon is a tiny city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 202 people and just one neighborhood, Dixon is the 430th largest community in Iowa. Dixon has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
Dixon real estate is some of the most expensive in Iowa, although Dixon house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
When you are in Dixon, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.70% of Dixon’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Dixon is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Dixon who work in office and administrative support (18.18%), sales jobs (8.33%), and management occupations (6.06%).
Also of interest is that Dixon has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Because of many things, Dixon 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, Dixon really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Dixon 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.
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!) Dixon 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. Dixon has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Dixon than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Dixon may be for you.
One downside of living in Dixon, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.07 minutes every day commuting to work.
Dixon is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Dixon 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. 96.77% 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, Dixon does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Dixon rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.08% of adults 25 and older in Dixon have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Dixon in 2018 was $37,333, which is wealthy relative to Iowa, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $149,332 for a family of four. However, Dixon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Dixon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dixon residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Dixon include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Belgian.
The most common language spoken in Dixon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Langs. of India.
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.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Dixon 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 87.4% of the neighborhoods in Iowa. If you are considering retiring to Iowa, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 50.3% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 2.0% have Belgian ancestry.
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 Dixon are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 77.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.1% 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 53.7% 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, 41.9% 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 24.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.6%), and 12.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households.
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 Dixon, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (50.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.5%), and residents who report English roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.5%), along with some African ancestry residents (3.5%), among others.
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 (45.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
