Ute - Moorhead is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 1,618 people and just one neighborhood, Ute - Moorhead is the 298th largest community in Iowa. Ute - Moorhead has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns, Ute - Moorhead isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Ute - Moorhead are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ute - Moorhead is a town of managers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ute - Moorhead who work in management occupations (16.13%), office and administrative support (9.85%), and healthcare suport services (9.48%).
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Ute - Moorhead has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.93% 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.
The overall crime rate in Ute - Moorhead is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
Ute - Moorhead is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Ute - Moorhead with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.15% of adults in Ute - Moorhead have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ute - Moorhead in 2022 was $33,516, which is lower middle income relative to Iowa, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $134,064 for a family of four. However, Ute - Moorhead contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ute - Moorhead home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ute - Moorhead residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Ute - Moorhead include German, Irish, Norwegian, English, and Danish.
The most common language spoken in Ute - Moorhead 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 Ute - Moorhead, 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 6 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 4.7% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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, 3.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 43.8% 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 Ute - Moorhead are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.6% 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, 35.8% 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 29.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.3%), and 11.1% 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 98.0% 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 Ute - Moorhead, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (43.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.8%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.4%), along with some Danish ancestry residents (3.8%), 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 (39.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.5%) 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 (10.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.