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Tripoli, IA

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Overview


Tripoli is a very small city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 1,204 people and just one neighborhood, Tripoli is the 331st largest community in Iowa. Much of the housing stock in Tripoli was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Tripoli is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Tripoli is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tripoli who work in office and administrative support (12.59%), healthcare (11.42%), and sales jobs (8.20%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Tripoli’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

Being a small city, Tripoli does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Tripoli is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 25.27% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Tripoli in 2018 was $32,489, which is upper middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $129,956 for a family of four. However, Tripoli contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Tripoli is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 27 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.3% of America.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Tripoli is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in IA, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 88.8% of the neighborhoods in Iowa. If you are considering retiring to Iowa, this is a good neighborhood to look at. In addition to being an excellent choice for active retirees, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for families with school-aged children.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 53.6% of this neighborhood's residents 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 Tripoli are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.5% 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 79.9% of America'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, 43.8% 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 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.5%), and 9.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.1%).

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 Tripoli, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (53.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.0%), and residents who report English roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (3.7%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (35.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (71.1%) 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 (8.8%) . 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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