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Fonda, IA

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Overview


Fonda is a tiny city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 635 people and just one neighborhood, Fonda is the 385th largest community in Iowa. Fonda has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Fonda isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Fonda are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Fonda is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fonda who work in healthcare (12.54%), sales jobs (11.62%), and management occupations (7.95%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Fonda’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

Being a small city, Fonda does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Fonda who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.81% of the adults in Fonda have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Fonda in 2022 was $30,735, which is lower middle income relative to Iowa, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $122,940 for a family of four. However, Fonda contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Fonda is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Fonda home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fonda residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Fonda also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.79% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Fonda include German, Irish, Danish, Norwegian, and Italian.

Fonda also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 15.54%.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Fonda, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 7 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.7% of America.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Fonda is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in IA, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 86.8% of the neighborhoods in Iowa. If you are considering retiring to Iowa, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 44.0% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 2.5% have Danish 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 Fonda are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.7% 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 69.0% 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, 40.2% 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 25.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.5%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (7.2%).

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 Fonda, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (44.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report Mexican roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (5.0%), along with some English ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (70.8%) 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 (14.6%) . 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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