Avoca - Walnut is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,924 people and just one neighborhood, Avoca - Walnut is the 170th largest community in Iowa. Much of the housing stock in Avoca - Walnut was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns, Avoca - Walnut isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Avoca - Walnut are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Avoca - Walnut is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Avoca - Walnut who work in office and administrative support (12.12%), management occupations (9.98%), and sales jobs (8.77%).
Being a small town, Avoca - Walnut does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Avoca - Walnut who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.78% of the adults in Avoca - Walnut have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Avoca - Walnut in 2022 was $37,168, which is middle income relative to Iowa, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $148,672 for a family of four. However, Avoca - Walnut contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Avoca - Walnut home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Avoca - Walnut residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Avoca - Walnut include German, Irish, Danish, English, and French.
The most common language spoken in Avoca - Walnut is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish 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 Avoca - Walnut, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
If you are planning to retire in Iowa, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Iowa, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 96.4% of neighborhoods in IA. If a Iowa retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.
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 92.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 38.5% have German 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 Avoca - Walnut are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.7% of U.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, 34.5% 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 33.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.0%), and 14.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% 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 Avoca - Walnut, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (38.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report Danish roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 (37.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (87.8%) 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.