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Lone Tree, IA

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Overview


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.

Occupations and Workforce

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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Lone Tree is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Lone Tree who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.40% of the adults in Lone Tree have a bachelor's degree or advanced 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.

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

Real Estate

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.

Diversity

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.

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 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.

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, 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.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

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.

Getting to Work

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 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.


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