Toledo is a very small city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 2,164 people and just one neighborhood, Toledo is the 138th largest community in Iowa. Toledo has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.
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Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Toledo is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.83% of the Toledo workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Toledo is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Toledo who work in sales jobs (11.05%), office and administrative support (10.10%), and management occupations (6.27%).
Toledo 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.
The rate of college-level education in Toledo is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.35% of people here over 25 have a bachelor’s degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Toledo in 2010 was $20,920, which is low income relative to Iowa, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $83,680 for a family of four. However, Toledo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Toledo is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Toledo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Toledo residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Toledo also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.66% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Toledo include Irish, English, Czech, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Toledo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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