Breda - Arcadia is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,381 people and just one neighborhood, Breda - Arcadia is the 231st largest community in Iowa. Breda - Arcadia 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, Breda - Arcadia is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.94% of the Breda - Arcadia workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Breda - Arcadia is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Breda - Arcadia who work in office and administrative support (17.83%), management occupations (8.43%), and sales jobs (6.68%).
Because of many things, Breda - Arcadia is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Breda - Arcadia 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, Breda - Arcadia has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Breda - Arcadia’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
One of the benefits of Breda - Arcadia is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.43 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
As is often the case in a small town, Breda - Arcadia doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Breda - Arcadia who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.07% of the adults in Breda - Arcadia have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Breda - Arcadia in 2022 was $32,860, which is middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $131,440 for a family of four. However, Breda - Arcadia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Breda - Arcadia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Breda - Arcadia residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Breda - Arcadia include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Breda - Arcadia is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Greek.
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.
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 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 9.0% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Iowa. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 56.2% of this neighborhood's residents 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 Breda - Arcadia are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.0% 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 75.3% 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, 36.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 24.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.1%), and 12.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% 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 Breda - Arcadia, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (56.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.3%), and residents who report English roots (3.8%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (1.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.7%), among others.
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 (45.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.9%) 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 (5.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.