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Story City - Roland, IA

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Overview


Story City - Roland is a somewhat small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 5,529 people and just one neighborhood, Story City - Roland is the 78th largest community in Iowa.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Story City - Roland isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Story City - Roland are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Story City - Roland is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Story City - Roland who work in management occupations (12.62%), office and administrative support (12.51%), and sales jobs (7.83%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The overall education level of Story City - Roland citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.83% of adults in Story City - Roland have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.

The per capita income in Story City - Roland in 2018 was $36,941, which is wealthy relative to Iowa, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $147,764 for a family of four. However, Story City - Roland contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Story City - Roland home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Story City - Roland residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Story City - Roland include German, Norwegian, English, Irish, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Story City - Roland is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 2.4% have Swiss 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 Story City - Roland are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 37.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 23.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.1%), and 17.8% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.8%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Story City - Roland, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.4%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (21.0%), and residents who report English roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.9%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.1%) 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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