Davis City is a tiny city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 179 people and just one neighborhood, Davis City is the 435th largest community in Iowa. Davis City 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 Davis City, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 46.84% of Davis City’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Davis City is a city of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Davis City who work in management occupations (15.19%), food service (11.39%), and healthcare suport services (10.13%).
Of important note, Davis City is also a city of artists. Davis City has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Davis City’s character.
Overall, Davis City’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Davis City is worth considering.
Being a small city, Davis City does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Davis City ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 4.27% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Davis City in 2022 was $24,804, which is low income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $99,216 for a family of four. However, Davis City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Davis City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Davis City residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Davis City include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Davis City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.
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.
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 8 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.6% of America.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 37.9% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.5% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Significantly, 3.7% 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 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Davis City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.5% 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 51.4% 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, 39.7% 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 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.0%), and 11.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.8% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (3.7%).
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 Davis City, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report English roots (10.2%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (74.7%) 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 (11.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.