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Does real estate here hold its value?
Are the trends in local vacancies or unemployment concerning?
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Blairstown - Keystone is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,635 people and just one neighborhood, Blairstown - Keystone is the 206th largest community in Iowa. Blairstown - Keystone has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Occupations and Workforce
Blairstown - Keystone is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Blairstown - Keystone is a town of managers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Blairstown - Keystone who work in management occupations (17.75%), office and administrative support (7.40%), and sales jobs (7.40%).
Also of interest is that Blairstown - Keystone has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Setting & Lifestyle
Blairstown - Keystone is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Blairstown - Keystone’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
Blairstown - Keystone 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.
Demographics
The education level of Blairstown - Keystone citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.11% of adults 25 and older in Blairstown - Keystone have a college degree.
The per capita income in Blairstown - Keystone in 2022 was $36,661, which is upper middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $146,644 for a family of four. However, Blairstown - Keystone contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Blairstown - Keystone home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blairstown - Keystone residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Blairstown - Keystone include German, Irish, English, Czech, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Blairstown - Keystone is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Greek.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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 Blairstown - Keystone, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Real Estate
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 21 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.6% of America.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 43.2% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 1.2% have Belgian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
The Neighbors
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 Blairstown - Keystone are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.2% 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, 36.4% 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 (19.7%), and 10.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.7%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Blairstown - Keystone, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (43.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report English roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.0%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 (33.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.4%) 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 (7.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
