Battle Creek - Arthur is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,058 people and just one neighborhood, Battle Creek - Arthur is the 256th largest community in Iowa. Much of the housing stock in Battle Creek - Arthur was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns, Battle Creek - Arthur isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Battle Creek - Arthur are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Battle Creek - Arthur is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Battle Creek - Arthur who work in management occupations (13.50%), office and administrative support (11.27%), and healthcare suport services (8.01%).
A relatively large number of people in Battle Creek - Arthur telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.81% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Being a small town, Battle Creek - Arthur does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Battle Creek - Arthur with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.33% of adults in Battle Creek - Arthur have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Battle Creek - Arthur in 2022 was $30,625, 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 $122,500 for a family of four. However, Battle Creek - Arthur contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Battle Creek - Arthur home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Battle Creek - Arthur residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Battle Creek - Arthur include German, Irish, English, Swedish, and Danish.
The most common language spoken in Battle Creek - Arthur is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 8 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 45.2% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 2.5% have Danish 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 Battle Creek - Arthur are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.7% 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 59.4% of America'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, 31.4% 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.3%), and 15.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.4%).
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 Battle Creek - Arthur, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (45.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.4%), and residents who report English roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (4.1%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.7% 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 (7.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.