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La Porte City, IA

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Overview


La Porte City is a very small city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,252 people and just one neighborhood, La Porte City is the 246th largest community in Iowa. La Porte City has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, La Porte City isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in La Porte City are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, La Porte City is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in La Porte City who work in office and administrative support (15.29%), sales jobs (11.86%), and management occupations (8.52%).

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small city, La Porte City doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, La Porte City is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.27% of adults 25 and older in La Porte City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in La Porte City in 2022 was $30,627, 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 $122,508 for a family of four. However, La Porte City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in La Porte City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

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.

People

The first thing that you'll notice if you moved to this neighborhood is that an astounding 4.0% of the households are same sex couples. According to NeighborhoodScout's analysis, this is a higher proportion of same sex households than in 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America. This is one indicator that this neighborhood is likely a gay-friendly neighborhood. So if you are looking for such a neighborhood, the neighborhood should definitely be on your list of places to consider.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 46.1% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 0.4% have Yugoslav 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 La Porte City are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.9% 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 64.9% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 37.6% 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 24.8% 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 16.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.1% of households.

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 La Porte City, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (46.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (19.4%), and residents who report English roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (4.5%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (87.7%) 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 (5.3%) . 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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