Grandview - Letts is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,832 people and just one neighborhood, Grandview - Letts is the 173rd largest community in Iowa. Much of the housing stock in Grandview - Letts was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Grandview - Letts is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.16% of the Grandview - Letts workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Grandview - Letts is a town of service providers, managers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Grandview - Letts who work in management occupations (13.08%), office and administrative support (10.62%), and food service (6.85%).
Grandview - Letts is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Grandview - Letts with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.27% of adults in Grandview - Letts have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Grandview - Letts in 2022 was $33,342, which is middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $133,368 for a family of four. However, Grandview - Letts contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Grandview - Letts is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Grandview - Letts home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Grandview - Letts residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Grandview - Letts also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.50% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Grandview - Letts include German, Irish, English, Swedish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Grandview - Letts is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
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.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 3.6% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 94.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 96.9% 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.
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 Grandview - Letts are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.7% of U.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, 37.5% 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 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.9%), and 15.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (12.0%).
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 Grandview - Letts, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.7%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (16.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.0%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 (38.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.5%) 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 (15.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.