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Grand Junction - Rippey, IA

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Overview


Grand Junction - Rippey is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 1,746 people and just one neighborhood, Grand Junction - Rippey is the 288th largest community in Iowa. Much of the housing stock in Grand Junction - Rippey was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Grand Junction - Rippey is a blue-collar town, with 42.68% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Grand Junction - Rippey is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Grand Junction - Rippey who work in office and administrative support (8.85%), management occupations (7.38%), and sales jobs (6.92%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Grand Junction - Rippey with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.20% of adults in Grand Junction - Rippey have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Grand Junction - Rippey in 2018 was $31,448, which is lower middle income relative to Iowa, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $125,792 for a family of four. However, Grand Junction - Rippey contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Grand Junction - Rippey is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 12 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.5% of America.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 3.6% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish 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 Grand Junction - Rippey are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 39.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 22.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.1%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households.

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 Grand Junction - Rippey, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report English roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (3.6%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.6%) 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 (6.2%) . 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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