Alden - Radcliffe is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,696 people and just one neighborhood, Alden - Radcliffe is the 189th largest community in Iowa. Alden - Radcliffe has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Alden - Radcliffe is a blue-collar town, with 41.71% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Alden - Radcliffe is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Alden - Radcliffe who work in office and administrative support (13.20%), management occupations (12.41%), and farm management occupations (10.65%).
You will also find that a lot of people in Alden - Radcliffe work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.
Also of interest is that Alden - Radcliffe has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 16.18% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Alden - Radcliffe is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Alden - Radcliffe who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.03% of the adults in Alden - Radcliffe have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Alden - Radcliffe in 2022 was $35,836, which is upper middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $143,344 for a family of four. However, Alden - Radcliffe contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Alden - Radcliffe home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Alden - Radcliffe residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Alden - Radcliffe include German, Norwegian, Irish, English, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Alden - Radcliffe is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Scandinavian languages.
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.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.0% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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 14 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.1% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 48.3% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 12.1% have Norwegian ancestry.
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 Alden - Radcliffe are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.2% 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, 31.8% 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 31.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.7%), and 11.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.5%).
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 Alden - Radcliffe, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (48.3%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (12.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.5%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.2%), among others.
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 (36.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.5%) 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.