Keota is a tiny city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 893 people and just one neighborhood, Keota is the 361st largest community in Iowa.
When you are in Keota, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.54% of Keota’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Keota is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Keota who work in office and administrative support (13.54%), management occupations (7.90%), and maintenance occupations (6.77%).
The overall crime rate in Keota 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.
One downside of living in Keota, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.39 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small city, Keota doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Keota rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.84% of adults 25 and older in Keota 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 Keota in 2022 was $34,975, which is middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $139,900 for a family of four. However, Keota contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Keota home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Keota residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Keota include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Keota is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Greek.
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.
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 4.7% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 96.6% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 3.5% have Dutch ancestry.
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 Keota are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.9% 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 67.7% 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, 32.1% 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 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.1%), and 16.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Keota, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.9%), and residents who report English roots (14.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (6.7%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (85.6%) 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 (7.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.