Andrew is a tiny city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 375 people and just one neighborhood, Andrew is the 411th largest community in Iowa. Andrew has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Andrew is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Andrew is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Andrew who work in food service (17.11%), sales jobs (11.40%), and personal care services (10.96%).
The overall crime rate in Andrew is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Andrew has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Andrew has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Andrew than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Andrew may be for you.
One downside of living in Andrew, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.65 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small city, Andrew does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Andrew rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.79% of adults 25 and older in Andrew have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Andrew in 2022 was $35,610, which is middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $142,440 for a family of four. However, Andrew contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Andrew home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Andrew residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Andrew include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Andrew is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Pacific Island 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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 19 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
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 35.6% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.5% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Priests and therapists would like to think they know the secrets to a truly successful marriage, but according to NeighborhoodScout's research, the folks of the neighborhood may actually hold the key. 69.9% of its residents are married, which is a higher percentage than is found in 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 43.1% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 1.7% have Swiss 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 Andrew are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.2% 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 63.3% of America'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, 37.2% 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 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.8%), and 14.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% 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 Andrew, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (43.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (23.7%), and residents who report English roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.8%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 (35.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.4%) 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 (6.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.