New Virginia - Martensdale is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 3,891 people and just one neighborhood, New Virginia - Martensdale is the 130th largest community in Iowa.
New Virginia - Martensdale real estate is some of the most expensive in Iowa, although New Virginia - Martensdale house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
New Virginia - Martensdale is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, New Virginia - Martensdale is a town of managers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in New Virginia - Martensdale who work in management occupations (17.72%), office and administrative support (7.92%), and business and financial occupations (7.66%).
Also of interest is that New Virginia - Martensdale has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in New Virginia - Martensdale telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 15.61% 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.
In addition, New Virginia - Martensdale is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates", which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.
Because of many things, New Virginia - Martensdale is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making New Virginia - Martensdale 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, New Virginia - Martensdale has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, New Virginia - Martensdale’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
Being a small town, New Virginia - Martensdale does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The overall education level of New Virginia - Martensdale citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 29.56% of adults in New Virginia - Martensdale have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.
The per capita income in New Virginia - Martensdale in 2022 was $44,726, which is wealthy relative to Iowa, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $178,904 for a family of four. However, New Virginia - Martensdale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call New Virginia - Martensdale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Virginia - Martensdale residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in New Virginia - Martensdale include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and European.
The most common language spoken in New Virginia - Martensdale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 37.0% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.1% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
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 35 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.8% of America.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 8.0% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Iowa. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for highly educated executives.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 33.6% have German ancestry.
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 New Virginia - Martensdale are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 71.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.5% 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 65.6% of America'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, 45.3% 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.4%), and 9.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% 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 New Virginia - Martensdale, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.9%), and residents who report English roots (13.0%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.9%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.7%) 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 (5.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.