Keosauqua is a tiny city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 947 people and just one neighborhood, Keosauqua is the 354th largest community in Iowa.
Unlike some cities, Keosauqua isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Keosauqua are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Keosauqua is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Keosauqua who work in office and administrative support (16.92%), food service (16.31%), and sales jobs (7.38%).
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!) Keosauqua 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. Keosauqua has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Keosauqua than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Keosauqua may be for you.
One of the benefits of Keosauqua is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.87 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Keosauqua 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 citizens of Keosauqua are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.84% of adults in Keosauqua have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Keosauqua in 2022 was $28,586, 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 $114,344 for a family of four. However, Keosauqua contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Keosauqua home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Keosauqua residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Keosauqua include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Keosauqua 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 17 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.7% 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 99.2% 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 Keosauqua are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.4% 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 54.7% 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, 40.0% 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 27.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.9%), and 11.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.5% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (5.7%).
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 Keosauqua, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (6.5%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 (39.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (71.4%) 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 (13.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.