Mechanicsville - Stanwood is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 3,577 people and just one neighborhood, Mechanicsville - Stanwood is the 137th largest community in Iowa. Mechanicsville - Stanwood has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Unlike some towns, Mechanicsville - Stanwood isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Mechanicsville - Stanwood are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mechanicsville - Stanwood is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Mechanicsville - Stanwood who work in office and administrative support (12.56%), management occupations (12.51%), and sales jobs (7.85%).
Also of interest is that Mechanicsville - Stanwood 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 Mechanicsville - Stanwood telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.15% 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.
Because of many things, Mechanicsville - Stanwood 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, Mechanicsville - Stanwood really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Mechanicsville - Stanwood 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.
One downside of living in Mechanicsville - Stanwood is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Mechanicsville - Stanwood, the average commute to work is 30.40 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Mechanicsville - Stanwood doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Mechanicsville - Stanwood is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.44% of adults 25 and older in Mechanicsville - Stanwood have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mechanicsville - Stanwood in 2022 was $37,509, which is upper middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $150,036 for a family of four. However, Mechanicsville - Stanwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Mechanicsville - Stanwood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mechanicsville - Stanwood residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mechanicsville - Stanwood include German, Irish, Czech, English, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Mechanicsville - Stanwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 22 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 48.1% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 1.0% have Belgian 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 Mechanicsville - Stanwood are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.6% 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 65.9% 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, 33.0% 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 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.0%), and 16.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.3%).
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 Mechanicsville - Stanwood, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (48.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.5%), and residents who report English roots (5.9%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (3.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (81.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.