Stratford - Stanhope is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 1,807 people and just one neighborhood, Stratford - Stanhope is the 282nd largest community in Iowa. Stratford - Stanhope has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Stratford - Stanhope is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.60% of the Stratford - Stanhope workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Stratford - Stanhope is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Stratford - Stanhope who work in management occupations (14.41%), office and administrative support (12.32%), and sales jobs (8.56%).
Being a small town, Stratford - Stanhope does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Stratford - Stanhope rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.47% of adults 25 and older in Stratford - Stanhope have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Stratford - Stanhope in 2022 was $33,837, which is middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $135,348 for a family of four. However, Stratford - Stanhope contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Stratford - Stanhope home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Stratford - Stanhope residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Stratford - Stanhope include German, Swedish, Norwegian, English, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Stratford - Stanhope is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Stratford - Stanhope, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.2% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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, 13.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 11.0% 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 Stratford - Stanhope are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.3% 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 57.9% 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, 31.6% 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 31.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.0%), and 14.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households.
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 Stratford - Stanhope, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.3%). There are also a number of people of Swedish ancestry (13.2%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (11.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (10.2%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (7.5%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.1%) 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 (7.2%) and 5.5% 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.