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Sherrill, IA

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Overview


Sherrill is a tiny city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 176 people and just one neighborhood, Sherrill is the 433rd largest community in Iowa. Sherrill has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Sherrill real estate is some of the most expensive in Iowa, although Sherrill house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Sherrill is a blue-collar town, with 41.41% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Sherrill is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Sherrill who work in office and administrative support (10.10%), sales jobs (10.10%), and healthcare (9.09%).

A relatively large number of people in Sherrill telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 17.17% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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

Because of many things, Sherrill is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Sherrill a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The city’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Sherrill has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Sherrill’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

Being a small city, Sherrill does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Sherrill are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.03% of adults in Sherrill have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Sherrill in 2022 was $38,447, which is upper middle income relative to Iowa and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $153,788 for a family of four. However, Sherrill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Sherrill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sherrill residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Sherrill include German, Irish, English, Scots-Irish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Sherrill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 5.7% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Iowa. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for college students.

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 36 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.7% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 50.0% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 1.9% have Swiss 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 Sherrill are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 67.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 20.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.9% 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, 37.3% 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 30.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.4%), and 15.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% 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 Sherrill, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (50.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.4%), and residents who report English roots (3.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.3%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 (51.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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