Mount Ayr - Kellerton is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,690 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Ayr - Kellerton is the 194th largest community in Iowa. Mount Ayr - Kellerton has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Unlike some towns, Mount Ayr - Kellerton isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Mount Ayr - Kellerton are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mount Ayr - Kellerton is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Ayr - Kellerton who work in management occupations (16.84%), healthcare (11.48%), and office and administrative support (11.18%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.22% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Mount Ayr - Kellerton 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, Mount Ayr - Kellerton is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.14% of adults 25 and older in Mount Ayr - Kellerton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mount Ayr - Kellerton in 2022 was $30,594, 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 $122,376 for a family of four. However, Mount Ayr - Kellerton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Mount Ayr - Kellerton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Ayr - Kellerton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mount Ayr - Kellerton include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Mount Ayr - Kellerton 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.
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 14 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.2% of America.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 58.3% 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 95.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
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 Mount Ayr - Kellerton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.9% 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, 40.9% 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 27.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.2%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.3%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Mount Ayr - Kellerton, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (18.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (58.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (74.8%) 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 (9.5%) and 7.5% 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.