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Sanborn - Primghar, IA

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Overview


Sanborn - Primghar is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 3,826 people and just one neighborhood, Sanborn - Primghar is the 125th largest community in Iowa. Much of the housing stock in Sanborn - Primghar was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Sanborn - Primghar isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Sanborn - Primghar are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sanborn - Primghar is a town of professionals, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sanborn - Primghar who work in management occupations (12.75%), healthcare (7.84%), and office and administrative support (7.61%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Sanborn - Primghar who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.81% of the adults in Sanborn - Primghar have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Sanborn - Primghar in 2018 was $29,069, 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 $116,276 for a family of four. However, Sanborn - Primghar contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Sanborn - Primghar is English. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog and West Germanic languages.

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

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.2%) living in the 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 18 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 34.4% 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 Sanborn - Primghar are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.9% of U.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, 37.3% 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 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 (19.6%), and 11.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% 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 Sanborn - Primghar, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (34.4%). There are also a number of people of Dutch ancestry (22.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.6%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (5.5%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.1%), 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 (42.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (87.1%) 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 (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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