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Melcher-Dallas, IA

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Overview


Melcher-Dallas is a very small city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 1,181 people and just one neighborhood, Melcher-Dallas is the 330th largest community in Iowa. Melcher-Dallas 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

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Melcher-Dallas is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.14% of the Melcher-Dallas workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Melcher-Dallas is a city of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Melcher-Dallas who work in teaching (11.59%), healthcare suport services (9.78%), and sales jobs (8.70%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Melcher-Dallas, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.08 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

The citizens of Melcher-Dallas are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.44% of adults in Melcher-Dallas have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Melcher-Dallas in 2018 was $25,532, which is low income relative to Iowa, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,128 for a family of four. However, Melcher-Dallas contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Melcher-Dallas home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Melcher-Dallas residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Melcher-Dallas include German, English, Irish, Dutch, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Melcher-Dallas is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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.

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 22 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 7.6% have Norwegian 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 Melcher-Dallas are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.9% 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 53.4% 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, 40.4% 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 31.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.7%), and 13.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% 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 Melcher-Dallas, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.2%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (7.6%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (7.6%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (79.2%) 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 (8.1%) . 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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