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Graettinger - Mallard, IA

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Overview


Graettinger - Mallard is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 1,685 people and just one neighborhood, Graettinger - Mallard is the 292nd largest community in Iowa. Graettinger - Mallard has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Graettinger - Mallard is a blue-collar town, with 38.68% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Graettinger - Mallard is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Graettinger - Mallard who work in office and administrative support (12.82%), management occupations (12.41%), and sales jobs (7.34%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Graettinger - Mallard 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 citizens of Graettinger - Mallard are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.94% of adults in Graettinger - Mallard have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Graettinger - Mallard in 2018 was $28,045, 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 $112,180 for a family of four. However, Graettinger - Mallard contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Graettinger - Mallard is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Graettinger - Mallard home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Graettinger - Mallard residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Graettinger - Mallard include German, Irish, Norwegian, French, and English.

The most common language spoken in Graettinger - Mallard is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 96.5% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 13 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 38.8% have German 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 Graettinger - Mallard are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.9% 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 72.2% 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, 33.9% 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 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.8%), and 16.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.0%).

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 Graettinger - Mallard, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (38.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.7%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (10.5%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.8%), along with some English 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 (46.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (76.0%) 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 (16.8%) . 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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