Lone Tree is a very small city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 1,351 people and just one neighborhood, Lone Tree is the 323rd largest community in Iowa.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lone Tree is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.35% of the Lone Tree workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Lone Tree is a city of construction workers and builders, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lone Tree who work in office and administrative support (12.86%), management occupations (7.04%), and food service (5.68%).
Also of interest is that Lone Tree has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
As is often the case in a small city, Lone Tree doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Lone Tree citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.40% of adults 25 and older in Lone Tree have a college degree.
The per capita income in Lone Tree in 2022 was $35,442, which is middle income relative to Iowa, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $141,768 for a family of four. However, Lone Tree contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Lone Tree home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lone Tree residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Lone Tree include German, Irish, Czech, English, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Lone Tree is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Lone Tree, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 26 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 0.5% 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 Lone Tree are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.4% 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 70.1% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 34.8% 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 31.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.0%), and 14.8% 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 93.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.3%).
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 Lone Tree, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.3%), and residents who report English roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.6%), along with some Danish ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 (40.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (71.8%) 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 (15.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.