Schaller - Early is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,492 people and just one neighborhood, Schaller - Early is the 217th largest community in Iowa. Schaller - Early has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
When you are in Schaller - Early, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.41% of Schaller - Early’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Schaller - Early is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Schaller - Early who work in management occupations (15.47%), office and administrative support (10.88%), and sales jobs (8.92%).
Schaller - Early 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.
In terms of college education, Schaller - Early is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.90% of adults 25 and older in Schaller - Early have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Schaller - Early in 2022 was $35,798, which is upper middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $143,192 for a family of four. However, Schaller - Early contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Schaller - Early is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Schaller - Early home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Schaller - Early residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Schaller - Early also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.23% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Schaller - Early include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Schaller - Early is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 10 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.1% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 40.6% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.
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 Schaller - Early are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.4% 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, 32.4% 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 31.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.2%), and 13.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.6%).
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 Schaller - Early, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (40.6%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.1%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (3.0%), 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 (52.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (5.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.