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Manly - Kensett, IA

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Overview


Manly - Kensett is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,640 people and just one neighborhood, Manly - Kensett is the 197th largest community in Iowa. Manly - Kensett has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Manly - Kensett is a blue-collar town, with 39.53% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Manly - Kensett is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Manly - Kensett who work in office and administrative support (10.98%), management occupations (10.98%), and sales jobs (6.46%).

Also of interest is that Manly - Kensett has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.34% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small town, Manly - Kensett does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Manly - Kensett with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.08% of adults in Manly - Kensett have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Manly - Kensett in 2022 was $37,552, which is upper middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $150,208 for a family of four. However, Manly - Kensett contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Manly - Kensett is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Scandinavian languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Manly - Kensett, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

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 20 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.7% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 17.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 37.6% 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 Manly - Kensett are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.1% of U.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, 39.3% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.4%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households.

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 Manly - Kensett, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.6%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (17.1%), and residents who report English roots (5.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.0%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.2%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (53.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.4%) 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 (6.1%) . 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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