Marshalltown Southeast median real estate price is $128,386, which is less expensive than 83.4% of Iowa neighborhoods and 90.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Marshalltown Southeast is currently $1,384, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 73.4% of the neighborhoods in Iowa.
Marshalltown Southeast is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Marshalltown, Iowa.
Marshalltown Southeast real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Marshalltown Southeast neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940.
Home and apartment vacancy rates are 6.4% in Marshalltown Southeast. NeighborhoodScout analysis shows that this rate is lower than 57.7% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies.
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 Marshalltown, the Marshalltown Southeast neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The Marshalltown Southeast neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Residents of the Marshalltown Southeast neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 66.9% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the Marshalltown Southeast neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 46.6% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.9% of American neighborhoods.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Marshalltown Southeast (25.7%) than in 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the Marshalltown Southeast neighborhood has more Dominican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Dominican 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 Marshalltown Southeast neighborhood in Marshalltown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.0% of U.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 Marshalltown Southeast neighborhood, 46.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (15.9%), and 10.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the Marshalltown Southeast neighborhood is English, spoken by 54.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Marshalltown Southeast neighborhood in Marshalltown, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (36.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (4.6%), along with some Dominican ancestry residents (3.7%), among others. In addition, 28.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 Marshalltown Southeast neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (66.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (67.8%) 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 (25.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.