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Gilbertville - Raymond, IA

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Overview


Gilbertville - Raymond is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 3,809 people and just one neighborhood, Gilbertville - Raymond is the 129th largest community in Iowa.

Occupations and Workforce

Gilbertville - Raymond is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Gilbertville - Raymond is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gilbertville - Raymond who work in office and administrative support (12.49%), management occupations (9.62%), and healthcare (8.08%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 11.78% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Gilbertville - Raymond has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Gilbertville - Raymond a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

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

Demographics

The education level of Gilbertville - Raymond citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.33% of adults 25 and older in Gilbertville - Raymond have a college degree.

The per capita income in Gilbertville - Raymond in 2018 was $32,621, which is upper middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $130,484 for a family of four. However, Gilbertville - Raymond contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Gilbertville - Raymond is English. Other important languages spoken here include Serbo-Croatian and Slavic 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.

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, 41.3% 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 Gilbertville - Raymond are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.9% 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 62.6% 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, 34.5% 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 32.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.7%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% 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 Gilbertville - Raymond, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (41.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.6%), and residents who report English roots (6.4%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (3.8%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (55.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.1%) 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 (8.5%) . 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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