Audubon is a very small city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,020 people and just one neighborhood, Audubon is the 263rd largest community in Iowa.
Audubon is a blue-collar town, with 35.51% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Audubon is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Audubon who work in sales jobs (11.22%), farm management occupations (9.95%), and management occupations (9.66%).
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Audubon has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Audubon has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Audubon than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Audubon may be for you.
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 17.90 minutes getting to work every day.
Audubon is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Audubon citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.53% of adults in Audubon have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Audubon in 2022 was $33,198, which is middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $132,792 for a family of four. However, Audubon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Audubon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Audubon residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Audubon include German, Danish, English, Dutch, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Audubon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Audubon, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 10.3% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 64.0% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
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, 29.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 41.2% have German 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 Audubon are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.1% 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, 31.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.7%), and 10.3% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households.
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 Audubon, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (41.2%). There are also a number of people of Danish ancestry (29.3%), and residents who report English roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.9%), along with some Dutch 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 (64.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.9%) 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 (7.0%) and 5.8% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work 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.