Cedar Falls is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Cedar Falls enrolled in college, Cedar Falls has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.
Cedar Falls, while not large, also appears to be attractive to some younger, educated professionals, who help shape the character of the city.
One of the benefits of Cedar Falls is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 15.39 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.
Cedar Falls is a decent-sized city, yet no one gets to work using public transit, because the city has no real transit system.
Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Cedar Falls, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Cedar Falls is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 50.39% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Cedar Falls in 2022 was $41,428, which is upper middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $165,712 for a family of four. However, Cedar Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Cedar Falls home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cedar Falls residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Cedar Falls include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Cedar Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Urdu.
