Gowrie - Callender is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 3,022 people and just one neighborhood, Gowrie - Callender is the 162nd largest community in Iowa. Much of the housing stock in Gowrie - Callender was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Gowrie - Callender is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Gowrie - Callender is a town of managers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gowrie - Callender who work in management occupations (21.39%), sales jobs (8.73%), and office and administrative support (7.64%).
Gowrie - Callender 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.
In terms of college education, Gowrie - Callender is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.95% of adults 25 and older in Gowrie - Callender have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Gowrie - Callender in 2022 was $36,067, which is upper middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $144,268 for a family of four. However, Gowrie - Callender contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Gowrie - Callender home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gowrie - Callender residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Gowrie - Callender include German, Norwegian, Irish, Swedish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Gowrie - Callender is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 15 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 10.9% 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 Gowrie - Callender are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.8% 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 72.1% of America'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, 41.3% 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 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.9%), and 12.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households.
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 Gowrie - Callender, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.4%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (10.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (8.4%), along with some English ancestry residents (7.2%), 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 (37.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.2%) 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 (6.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.