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Plainfield - Frederika, IA

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Overview


Plainfield - Frederika is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,385 people and just one neighborhood, Plainfield - Frederika is the 240th largest community in Iowa. Plainfield - Frederika has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Plainfield - Frederika is a blue-collar town, with 41.79% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Plainfield - Frederika is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Plainfield - Frederika who work in management occupations (13.93%), office and administrative support (13.16%), and maintenance occupations (4.64%).

Also of interest is that Plainfield - Frederika has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Plainfield - Frederika is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Plainfield - Frederika 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, Plainfield - Frederika has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Plainfield - Frederika’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

Demographics

The citizens of Plainfield - Frederika are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.91% of adults in Plainfield - Frederika have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Plainfield - Frederika in 2022 was $40,327, which is upper middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $161,308 for a family of four. However, Plainfield - Frederika contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Plainfield - Frederika home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Plainfield - Frederika residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Plainfield - Frederika include German, Irish, Norwegian, English, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Plainfield - Frederika 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 13 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.3% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

People

According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, is among the best neighborhoods for families in Iowa. In fact, this neighborhood is more family-friendly than 96.1% of neighborhoods in the entire state of Iowa. Its combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes gives this area the look and feel of a "Leave It to Beaver" episode. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a strong sense of community. In addition, the high number of college-educated parents influences the academic success of the local schools. Overall, you will find all of the amenities a family needs to thrive in the neighborhood.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 88.1% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.0% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 47.0% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 5.7% have Norwegian ancestry.

Migration / Stability

Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 95.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

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 Plainfield - Frederika are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.2% 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, 39.5% 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 30.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.4%), and 13.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households.

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 Plainfield - Frederika, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (47.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (5.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.3%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.6%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (88.1%) 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.


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