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Odebolt - Wall Lake is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,583 people and just one neighborhood, Odebolt - Wall Lake is the 206th largest community in Iowa. Odebolt - Wall Lake 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 where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Odebolt - Wall Lake is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Odebolt - Wall Lake is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Odebolt - Wall Lake who work in management occupations (18.73%), office and administrative support (17.05%), and sales jobs (8.52%).
Setting & Lifestyle
Because of many things, Odebolt - Wall Lake is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Odebolt - Wall Lake 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, Odebolt - Wall Lake has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Odebolt - Wall Lake’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Odebolt - Wall Lake spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 17.58 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small town, Odebolt - Wall Lake does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
The percentage of adults in Odebolt - Wall Lake who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.25% of the adults in Odebolt - Wall Lake have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Odebolt - Wall Lake in 2022 was $37,861, which is upper middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $151,444 for a family of four. However, Odebolt - Wall Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Odebolt - Wall Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Odebolt - Wall Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Odebolt - Wall Lake include German, English, Irish, Swedish, and Scandinavian.
The most common language spoken in Odebolt - Wall Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
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 German and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 45.9% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 4.2% have Swedish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Odebolt - Wall Lake are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.8% 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 65.3% of America'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, 32.7% 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 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.0%), and 19.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.4% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (8.1%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Odebolt - Wall Lake, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (45.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (4.2%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 (52.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.0%) 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 (7.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
