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Shelby - Earling, IA

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Overview


Shelby - Earling is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 3,111 people and just one neighborhood, Shelby - Earling is the 161st largest community in Iowa. Shelby - Earling 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, Shelby - Earling isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Shelby - Earling are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Shelby - Earling is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Shelby - Earling who work in management occupations (17.60%), office and administrative support (9.95%), and healthcare (7.52%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Shelby - Earling 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, Shelby - Earling really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Shelby - Earling 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.

As is often the case in a small town, Shelby - Earling doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Shelby - Earling who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.11% of the adults in Shelby - Earling have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Shelby - Earling in 2022 was $39,795, which is upper middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $159,180 for a family of four. However, Shelby - Earling contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Shelby - Earling home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shelby - Earling residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Shelby - Earling include German, Irish, English, Danish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Shelby - Earling is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

In addition, if you find historic homes and neighborhoods attractive, you love the details, the history, and the charm, then you are sure to be interested in this neighborhood. With 56.8% of the residential real estate in the neighborhood built no later than 1939, and some built considerably earlier, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of historic residences than 95.8% of all neighborhoods in America. In this regard, this neighborhood truly stands out as special.

Diversity

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, 3.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 42.9% have German ancestry.

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 Shelby - Earling are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.9% 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 75.1% 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, 35.8% 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 32.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.9%), and 12.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Shelby - Earling, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (42.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.2%), and residents who report English roots (4.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.8%), along with some Danish ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (78.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (9.4%) and 5.4% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. 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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