Toledo is a very small city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,391 people and just one neighborhood, Toledo is the 238th largest community in Iowa.
Toledo is a blue-collar town, with 42.52% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Toledo is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Toledo who work in office and administrative support (15.57%), sales jobs (10.66%), and management occupations (5.99%).
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Toledo has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Toledo has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Toledo than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Toledo may be for you.
Toledo is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The rate of college-level education in Toledo is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.75% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Toledo in 2022 was $27,988, which is low income relative to Iowa, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $111,952 for a family of four. However, Toledo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Toledo is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Toledo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Toledo residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Toledo include German, Irish, Czech, English, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Toledo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 18.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 0.7% have Belgian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Toledo are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.4% 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 neighborhood, 35.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.7%), and 15.6% 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 neighborhood is English, spoken by 86.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages, 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 neighborhood in Toledo, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.7%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (18.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (9.5%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.3%), 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 (54.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.0%) 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 (15.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.