Iowa Town ranked No. 18 on inaugural list
Pageant goers line up to consider photographs in entrance of an Iowa Metropolis signal on Washington Road through the Downtown Block Party in Iowa City on June 22, 2019. (David Harmantas/Freelance)
Doug Kelly of Cedar Rapids carries his granddaughter Kennedy Sarche, age 3, on his shoulders as Kennedy’s mom Katie Kelly appears to be on prior to Iowa’s activity in opposition to Indiana on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021. (Nicholas Rohlman/freelance for The Gazette)
Downtown Block Social gathering participants play in the sand at the intersection of Clinton and Washington streets in Iowa Metropolis on June 22, 2019. (David Harmantas/Freelance)
IOWA City — Iowa City is among the 25 greatest sites for families to dwell, according to an inaugural list launched by Fortune Very well at the end of September.
The checklist highlighted spots in the United States in which “multi-generational households are most likely to have accessibility to critical methods, community aid and economical effectively-remaining,” in accordance to a information launch.
Fortune Nicely is the health and fitness-targeted subsidiary of Fortune Magazine.
Iowa Town rated No. 18 on the listing. It was the only metropolis in Iowa to make the list.
The prime 3 sites had been Ann Arbor, Michigan Wylie, Texas and Olathe, Kansas.
Fortune uncovered that 7 in 10 People with at least a single living dad or mum claimed they hope to assist take care of their mothers and fathers as they get more mature. The “sandwich generation” — older people who treatment for each their ageing moms and dads and their possess young children — ended up the focus on population for the Fortune Well position.
To occur up with the record, Fortune evaluated just about 2,000 destinations throughout the region that experienced amongst 25,000 and 750,000 citizens. Details was collected throughout 5 types: instruction, growing old means, typical wellness, money wellbeing and livability.
Fortune labored with numerous details companions — which includes Caring.com, CVS, Healthgrades and ShareCare — and sourced info from the private-sector and from federal agencies.
There also was a emphasis on the high quality of community school districts, close by university affordability, quality nursing homes and obtain to strong well being care vendors, among the other factors, because of to the “unique difficulties of this cohort.”
Housing prices and numerous neighborhoods also had been factored in.
Fortune removed locations exactly where houses expense a lot more than two times the condition median or more than 2.75 occasions the nationwide median. Fortune also removed areas the place far more than 90 p.c of residents were being non-Hispanic white.
No a lot more than two destinations per point out could be provided in the checklist.
For Iowa Town, among the the functions highlighted have been the University of Iowa, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and how the town is a UNESCO Metropolis of Literature.
“Beyond greater training, above two-thirds of Iowa City’s general public faculties are rated average or previously mentioned average,” Fortune Well pointed out. “The area hospital ranks greater than normal, and people have accessibility to a amount of senior care services.”
The median family income in Iowa Town is $59,939. The median sale price for a solitary family members house in 2022 is $267,161.
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