St. Edward - Cedar Rapids is a very small town located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 3,404 people and just one neighborhood, St. Edward - Cedar Rapids is the 64th largest community in Nebraska. St. Edward - Cedar Rapids has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, St. Edward - Cedar Rapids is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.56% of the St. Edward - Cedar Rapids workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, St. Edward - Cedar Rapids is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in St. Edward - Cedar Rapids who work in management occupations (19.48%), office and administrative support (11.13%), and farm management occupations (8.07%).
You will also find that a lot of people in St. Edward - Cedar Rapids work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.79% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
Because of many things, St. Edward - Cedar Rapids is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, St. Edward - Cedar Rapids really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is St. Edward - Cedar Rapids perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
The citizens of St. Edward - Cedar Rapids are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.73% of adults in St. Edward - Cedar Rapids have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in St. Edward - Cedar Rapids in 2022 was $36,359, which is upper middle income relative to Nebraska, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $145,436 for a family of four. However, St. Edward - Cedar Rapids contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call St. Edward - Cedar Rapids home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of St. Edward - Cedar Rapids residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in St. Edward - Cedar Rapids include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in St. Edward - Cedar Rapids is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 8.1% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.6% 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 5 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.2% of America.
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, 41.6% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 4.6% have Swedish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 11.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 St. Edward - Cedar Rapids 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. With 14.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.8% of U.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, 35.0% 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 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.6%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% of households. Some people also speak Polish (11.0%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in St. Edward - Cedar Rapids, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (41.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.2%), and residents who report English roots (6.3%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.9%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (4.6%), 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 (48.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (73.0%) 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 (13.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.