Monmouth is a tiny city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 129 people and just one neighborhood, Monmouth is the 444th largest community in Iowa. Monmouth has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.
When you are in Monmouth, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 60.87% of Monmouth’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Monmouth is a city of transportation and shipping workers, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Monmouth who work in healthcare suport services (10.14%), healthcare (7.25%), and office and administrative support (5.80%).
The overall crime rate in Monmouth is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Monmouth has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Monmouth a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Monmouth 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.
Monmouth ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 1.92% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Monmouth in 2022 was $33,825, which is middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $135,300 for a family of four. However, Monmouth contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Monmouth home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Monmouth residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Monmouth include German, Irish, Danish, English, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Monmouth is English. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog and Italian.
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 Monmouth, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 13 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.4% of America.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 96.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 34.9% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 0.5% have Czechoslovakian 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 Monmouth are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.9% 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 75.5% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 40.6% 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 24.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.3%), and 10.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households.
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 Monmouth, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (34.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.1%), and residents who report English roots (3.6%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.5%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.3%) 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 (5.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.