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Woodburn, IA

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Overview


Woodburn is a tiny city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 138 people and just one neighborhood, Woodburn is the 441st largest community in Iowa. Woodburn has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Woodburn real estate is some of the most expensive in Iowa, although Woodburn house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Woodburn is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.70% of the Woodburn workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Woodburn is a city of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Woodburn who work in sales jobs (13.95%), healthcare suport services (11.63%), and management occupations (11.63%).

Also of interest is that Woodburn has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A relatively large number of people in Woodburn telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 21.05% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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

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

The city 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, Woodburn has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Woodburn a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Woodburn is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Woodburn, the average commute to work is 34.54 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small city, Woodburn doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Woodburn has a very low overall level of education: only 7.35% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Woodburn in 2018 was $22,970, 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 $91,880 for a family of four.

Woodburn is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Woodburn home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Woodburn residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Woodburn include German, Irish, English, Yugoslavian, and Italian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

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 9 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 35.2% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.3% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

People

With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 89.5% of the neighborhoods in IA. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students. In addition to being an excellent choice for college students, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for families with school-aged children.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 0.7% have Yugoslav 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 Woodburn are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 71.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.2% 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 64.6% 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, 40.5% 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 33.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.8%), and 11.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.5%).

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 Woodburn, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.8%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (10.8%), and residents who report English roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.6%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (7.3%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (34.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (84.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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