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Charter Oak - Dow City, IA

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Overview


Charter Oak - Dow City is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 1,983 people and just one neighborhood, Charter Oak - Dow City is the 266th largest community in Iowa. Much of the housing stock in Charter Oak - Dow City was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Charter Oak - Dow City, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.24% of Charter Oak - Dow City’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Charter Oak - Dow City is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Charter Oak - Dow City who work in management occupations (8.82%), sales jobs (7.95%), and office and administrative support (7.27%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Charter Oak - Dow City’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

Being a small town, Charter Oak - Dow City does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Charter Oak - Dow City is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.37% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Charter Oak - Dow City in 2018 was $29,289, 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 $117,156 for a family of four. However, Charter Oak - Dow City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Charter Oak - Dow City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Charter Oak - Dow City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Charter Oak - Dow City include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and French.

The most common language spoken in Charter Oak - Dow City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Charter Oak - Dow City, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 10 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.0% of America.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.3% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Car Ownership

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.2% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.7% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Charter Oak - Dow City 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 85.5% 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 German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 48.9% of this neighborhood's residents have German 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 Charter Oak - Dow City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.0% of U.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, 31.7% 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 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.1%), and 14.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.1%).

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 Charter Oak - Dow City, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (48.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report English roots (4.9%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (4.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 (49.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.8%) 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 (7.1%) . 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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