Afton - Lorimor is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,169 people and just one neighborhood, Afton - Lorimor is the 251st largest community in Iowa. Afton - Lorimor has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns, Afton - Lorimor isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Afton - Lorimor are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Afton - Lorimor is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Afton - Lorimor who work in management occupations (13.27%), sales jobs (11.24%), and office and administrative support (8.05%).
Afton - Lorimor 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.
The population of Afton - Lorimor overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Afton - Lorimor, 21.29% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Afton - Lorimor in 2022 was $32,097, 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 $128,388 for a family of four. However, Afton - Lorimor contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Afton - Lorimor home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Afton - Lorimor residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Afton - Lorimor include German, Irish, English, French, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Afton - Lorimor is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.8% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.6% of 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 Afton - Lorimor are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 35.5% 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 26.8% 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 10.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.2%).
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 Afton - Lorimor, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.9%), and residents who report English roots (12.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (7.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 (43.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.0%) 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 (16.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.