Clarence - Lowden is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,792 people and just one neighborhood, Clarence - Lowden is the 176th largest community in Iowa. Clarence - Lowden has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Unlike some towns, Clarence - Lowden isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Clarence - Lowden are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Clarence - Lowden is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Clarence - Lowden who work in management occupations (13.23%), office and administrative support (10.54%), and sales jobs (7.92%).
Being a small town, Clarence - Lowden does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Clarence - Lowden is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.37% of adults 25 and older in Clarence - Lowden have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Clarence - Lowden in 2022 was $35,459, which is middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $141,836 for a family of four. However, Clarence - Lowden contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Clarence - Lowden home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Clarence - Lowden residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Clarence - Lowden include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Clarence - Lowden is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 35.6% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.4% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 88.4% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.4% of all American neighborhoods.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 94.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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, 50.9% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 1.0% have Belgian 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 Clarence - Lowden are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.0% 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, 30.1% 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 28.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.2%), and 14.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.5%).
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 Clarence - Lowden, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (50.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report English roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.7%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 (31.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (88.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.