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Columbus Junction, IA

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Overview


Columbus Junction is a very small city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 1,796 people and just one neighborhood, Columbus Junction is the 283rd largest community in Iowa.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Columbus Junction, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 52.67% of Columbus Junction’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Columbus Junction is a city of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Columbus Junction who work in office and administrative support (7.62%), sales jobs (7.07%), and food service (6.42%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small city, Columbus Junction does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Columbus Junction who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.27% of the adults in Columbus Junction have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Columbus Junction in 2022 was $27,788, which is low income relative to Iowa, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $111,152 for a family of four. However, Columbus Junction contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Columbus Junction is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Columbus Junction home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Columbus Junction residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Columbus Junction also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 41.50% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Columbus Junction include German, English, Irish, African, and Polish.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Columbus Junction's cultural character, accounting for 26.37% of the city’s population.

The most common language spoken in Columbus Junction is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.6% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.4% of American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

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 22 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.2% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Columbus Junction are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.4% 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, 43.6% 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 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 (17.9%), and 12.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 70.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (23.7%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Columbus Junction, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (24.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (21.2%), and residents who report Asian roots (5.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.5%), among others. In addition, 15.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (77.3%) 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 (16.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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