Cedar Rapids, IA

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Cedar Rapids profile

Living in Cedar Rapids

Cedar Rapids is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 132,228 people and 28 constituent neighborhoods, Cedar Rapids is the second largest community in Iowa.

Cedar Rapids is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Cedar Rapids is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cedar Rapids who work in office and administrative support (14.46%), sales jobs (11.29%), and management occupations (9.56%).

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

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Cedar Rapids spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 19.16 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.

The overall education level of Cedar Rapids citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 31.86% of adults in Cedar Rapids have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.

The per capita income in Cedar Rapids in 2010 was $31,585, which is wealthy relative to Iowa, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $126,340 for a family of four. However, Cedar Rapids contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Cedar Rapids is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Cedar Rapids home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cedar Rapids residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cedar Rapids include German, Irish, English, Czech, and Norwegian.

The most common language spoken in Cedar Rapids is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.