menu

Durant - Bennett, IA

This is a small community in a single neighborhood. As throughout the site, some neighborhood-level data are reserved for subscribers.





Overview


Durant - Bennett is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,774 people and just one neighborhood, Durant - Bennett is the 182nd largest community in Iowa. Durant - Bennett has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Durant - Bennett isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Durant - Bennett are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Durant - Bennett is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Durant - Bennett who work in management occupations (12.74%), sales jobs (10.34%), and office and administrative support (9.27%).

A relatively large number of people in Durant - Bennett telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.44% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Durant - Bennett is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Durant - Bennett a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Durant - Bennett has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Durant - Bennett’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Being a small town, Durant - Bennett does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The overall education level of Durant - Bennett is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 26.83% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Durant - Bennett in 2022 was $41,890, which is wealthy relative to Iowa, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $167,560 for a family of four. However, Durant - Bennett contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Durant - Bennett home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Durant - Bennett residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Durant - Bennett include German, Irish, English, Swedish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Durant - Bennett is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Tagalog.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 41 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 45.8% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 1.0% have Belgian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Durant - Bennett are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.4% 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 57.0% 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, 31.1% 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 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 (24.1%), and 13.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households. Some people also speak Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region) (2.2%).

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 Durant - Bennett, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (45.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.4%), and residents who report English roots (4.2%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.3%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (3.0%), among others.

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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (84.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


Real Estate includes:
Average Home Values
Rental Market
Housing Market Details
Neighborhood Setting
Economics & Demographics include:
Lifestyle & Special Character
Household Types
Commute To Work
Migration & Mobility
Race & Ethnic Diversity
Employment Industries & Occupations
Income & Unemployment Rate
Higher Education Attainment
Crime includes:
Neighborhood Crime Index
Crimes Per Square Mile
Property Crime Comparison
Violent Crime Comparison
Schools include:
School Ratings
Schools In District
Public School Test Scores
School District Enrollment
Educational Expenditures

comparable neighborhoods nearby