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 a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
Davis City is a blue-collar town, with 46.84% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. 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.
The overall crime rate in Davis City 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!) Davis City 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. Davis City has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Davis City than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Davis City may be for you.
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.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 8 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. 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%).
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 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.
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 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.