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Lenox - Clearfield, IA

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Overview


Lenox - Clearfield is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,178 people and just one neighborhood, Lenox - Clearfield is the 253rd largest community in Iowa. Lenox - Clearfield has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Lenox - Clearfield is a blue-collar town, with 40.45% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Lenox - Clearfield is a town of service providers, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lenox - Clearfield who work in management occupations (13.08%), office and administrative support (7.66%), and sales jobs (7.57%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Lenox - Clearfield is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Lenox - Clearfield 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, Lenox - Clearfield has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Lenox - Clearfield’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Lenox - Clearfield rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.90% of adults 25 and older in Lenox - Clearfield 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 Lenox - Clearfield in 2022 was $34,925, which is middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $139,700 for a family of four. However, Lenox - Clearfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Lenox - Clearfield is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lenox - Clearfield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lenox - Clearfield residents report their race to be White. Lenox - Clearfield also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.19% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lenox - Clearfield include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Lenox - Clearfield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Lenox - Clearfield, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 98.3% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

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 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.6% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian 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 Lenox - Clearfield are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 33.3% 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 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.5%), and 10.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (12.4%).

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 Lenox - Clearfield, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.7%), and residents who report Mexican roots (13.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (46.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (78.6%) 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 (16.2%) . 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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