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Hazleton - Fairbank, IA

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Overview


Hazleton - Fairbank is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 3,897 people and just one neighborhood, Hazleton - Fairbank is the 122nd largest community in Iowa.

Occupations and Workforce

Hazleton - Fairbank is a blue-collar town, with 40.92% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Hazleton - Fairbank is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Hazleton - Fairbank who work in management occupations (13.26%), sales jobs (10.93%), and office and administrative support (8.03%).

A relatively large number of people in Hazleton - Fairbank telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.89% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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, Hazleton - Fairbank is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Hazleton - Fairbank a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Hazleton - Fairbank has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Hazleton - Fairbank’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Being a small town, Hazleton - Fairbank does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Hazleton - Fairbank are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.24% of adults in Hazleton - Fairbank have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Hazleton - Fairbank in 2018 was $33,141, which is middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $132,564 for a family of four. However, Hazleton - Fairbank contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Hazleton - Fairbank home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hazleton - Fairbank residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Hazleton - Fairbank include German, Irish, English, Pennsylvania German, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Hazleton - Fairbank is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

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.

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 39 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.1% of America.

People

With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 87.6% of the neighborhoods in IA. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav ancestry and 44.5% have German ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Hazleton - Fairbank are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.5% 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 73.2% 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, 39.3% 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 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.2%), and 9.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 84.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Italian.

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 Hazleton - Fairbank, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (44.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.9%), and residents who report English roots (5.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.1%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (79.1%) 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 (6.9%) . 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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