Schleswig - Kiron is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 1,982 people and just one neighborhood, Schleswig - Kiron is the 267th largest community in Iowa. Much of the housing stock in Schleswig - Kiron was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Schleswig - Kiron is a blue-collar town, with 39.25% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Schleswig - Kiron is a town of managers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Schleswig - Kiron who work in management occupations (12.78%), office and administrative support (9.81%), and farm management occupations (9.12%).
Another important characteristic of Schleswig - Kiron is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
A relatively large number of people in Schleswig - Kiron telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.02% 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.
Because of many things, Schleswig - Kiron is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Schleswig - Kiron a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Schleswig - Kiron has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Schleswig - Kiron’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
Being a small town, Schleswig - Kiron does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Schleswig - Kiron who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.54% of the adults in Schleswig - Kiron have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Schleswig - Kiron in 2022 was $39,276, which is wealthy relative to Iowa, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $157,104 for a family of four. However, Schleswig - Kiron contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Schleswig - Kiron is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Schleswig - Kiron home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Schleswig - Kiron residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Schleswig - Kiron also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.47% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Schleswig - Kiron include German, Irish, Dutch, Norwegian, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Schleswig - Kiron is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Schleswig - Kiron, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 9.1% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 54.6% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 4.8% have Dutch ancestry.
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 Schleswig - Kiron are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 25.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.6% of U.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, 35.3% 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 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (12.9%), and 12.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.1%).
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 Schleswig - Kiron, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (54.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.6%), and residents who report Mexican roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (4.8%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (3.3%), among others.
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 (48.6% 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 (10.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.