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Breda - Arcadia, IA

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Overview

Breda - Arcadia is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,358 people and just one neighborhood, Breda - Arcadia is the 231st largest community in Iowa. Breda - Arcadia has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Breda - Arcadia is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.79% of the Breda - Arcadia workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Breda - Arcadia is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Breda - Arcadia who work in office and administrative support (18.18%), management occupations (10.24%), and healthcare (6.50%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Breda - Arcadia is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Breda - Arcadia’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

One of the benefits of Breda - Arcadia is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.61 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Breda - Arcadia 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.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Breda - Arcadia who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.21% of the adults in Breda - Arcadia have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Breda - Arcadia in 2022 was $35,042, which is middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $140,168 for a family of four. However, Breda - Arcadia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Breda - Arcadia is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Greek.

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 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.6% of America.

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, 58.9% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Breda - Arcadia are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.3% 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 73.5% of America'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, 37.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 24.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.4%), and 13.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.

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 Breda - Arcadia, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (58.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.9%), and residents who report English roots (3.7%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (49.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (87.8%) 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 (5.8%) . 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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