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Eddyville, IA

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Overview


Eddyville is a tiny city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 956 people and just one neighborhood, Eddyville is the 347th largest community in Iowa.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Eddyville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Eddyville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Eddyville is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Eddyville who work in sales jobs (14.20%), healthcare (11.09%), and office and administrative support (10.70%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One of the benefits of Eddyville is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 19.10 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.

Eddyville is a small city, 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 people in Eddyville with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.93% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Eddyville in 2022 was $23,505, which is low income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,020 for a family of four. However, Eddyville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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.

People

Of particular note, 6.4% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

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 15 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.8% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch 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 Eddyville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 20.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.9% 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, 36.8% 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 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.9%), and 14.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% 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 Eddyville, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (20.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (7.7%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (76.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (8.6%) and 7.8% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. 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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