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Sergeant Bluff, IA

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Overview


Sergeant Bluff is a somewhat small city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 5,274 people and just one neighborhood, Sergeant Bluff is the 95th largest community in Iowa. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Sergeant Bluff, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Sergeant Bluff, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Sergeant Bluff’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Sergeant Bluff does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $122,610.00.

Sergeant Bluff real estate is some of the most expensive in Iowa, although Sergeant Bluff house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Sergeant Bluff isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Sergeant Bluff are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sergeant Bluff is a city of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sergeant Bluff who work in management occupations (20.41%), office and administrative support (9.80%), and healthcare (6.69%).

Of important note, Sergeant Bluff is also a city of artists. Sergeant Bluff has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Sergeant Bluff’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Sergeant Bluff is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Sergeant Bluff a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The city’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Sergeant Bluff has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Sergeant Bluff’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Sergeant Bluff spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.12 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.

As is often the case in a small city, Sergeant Bluff doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Sergeant Bluff is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 38.93% of adults in Sergeant Bluff have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Sergeant Bluff in 2022 was $46,334, which is wealthy relative to Iowa, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $185,336 for a family of four. However, Sergeant Bluff contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Sergeant Bluff home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sergeant Bluff residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Sergeant Bluff include German, Irish, English, Syrian, and Norwegian.

The most common language spoken in Sergeant Bluff is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and Spanish.

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 Sergeant Bluff, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Many people dream of living along a street lined with row houses or other attached homes. Such places do often have an abundance of charm. If you are one of these people, the neighborhood could be your paradise. With 24.6% of the homes and real estate here classified as rowhouses or other attached homes, this neighborhood brims with opportunity to find the right place for you. Only 4.7% of U.S. neighborhoods have more row houses than this neighborhood, making it one of the most interesting things about this special neighborhood.

People

If you are an executive or professional seeking a neighborhood affording an executive lifestyle, or just wanting to find where other executives live in the area, the neighborhood should be on your list. It has an enviable mix of spacious homes, relatively stable real estate values, and residents that include a number of wealthy executives, managers, and professionals. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis places it as one of the top 10.6% executive lifestyle neighborhoods in the state of Iowa. In addition to being an excellent choice for highly educated executives, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for college students.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Arab and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Arab ancestry and 42.2% have German ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Sergeant Bluff are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 85.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.5% 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 53.9% 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, 48.0% 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 22.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.9%), and 10.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.9% of households.

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 Sergeant Bluff, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (42.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.2%), and residents who report English roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Arab ancestry (5.9%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (4.6%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (50.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.3%) 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 (8.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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