Lenox - Clearfield is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,178 people and just one neighborhood, Lenox - Clearfield is the 253rd largest community in Iowa. Lenox - Clearfield 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, Lenox - Clearfield is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.45% of the Lenox - Clearfield workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Lenox - Clearfield is a town of service providers, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lenox - Clearfield who work in management occupations (13.08%), office and administrative support (7.66%), and sales jobs (7.57%).
Because of many things, Lenox - Clearfield 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, Lenox - Clearfield really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Lenox - Clearfield 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.
The percentage of adults in Lenox - Clearfield with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.90% of adults in Lenox - Clearfield have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lenox - Clearfield in 2022 was $34,925, which is middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $139,700 for a family of four. However, Lenox - Clearfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lenox - Clearfield is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lenox - Clearfield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lenox - Clearfield residents report their race to be White. Lenox - Clearfield also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.19% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lenox - Clearfield include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Lenox - Clearfield 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 Lenox - Clearfield, 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 7.1% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.6% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian 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 Lenox - Clearfield are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.6% of U.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, 33.3% 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 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.5%), and 10.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (12.4%).
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 Lenox - Clearfield, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.7%), and residents who report Mexican roots (13.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 (46.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (78.6%) 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 (16.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.