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Brookings, OR vs Council Bluffs, IA

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Highlights
- Household income in Council Bluffs, is 20% less than it is in Brookings and is 20% below the National Average.
- Brookings unemployment rate is 8.5%.
- Council Bluffs unemployment rate is 4.6%.

Economy
 Brookings, ORCouncil Bluffs, IAUnited States
 Unemployment Rate8.5%4.6%6.0%
 Recent Job Growth-0.7%1.6%1.6%
 Future Job Growth32.2%27.2%33.5%
 Sales Taxes0.0%7.0%6.2%
 Income Taxes9.0%7.4%4.6%
 Income per Cap.$37,784$29,169$37,638
 Household Income$72,273$57,683$69,021
 Family Median Income$81,210$69,888$85,028
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 Est. Households By Income
 Brookings, ORCouncil Bluffs, IAUnited States
 Income Less Than 15K8.6%11.0%9.4%
 Income between 15K and 20K4.3%5.1%3.8%
 Income between 20K and 30K8.9%8.9%8.1%
 Income between 30K and 40K5.3%10.9%8.0%
 Income between 40K and 50K1.5%7.7%7.6%
 Income between 50K and 60K11.2%8.6%7.2%
 Income between 60K and 75K12.6%11.0%9.6%
 Income between 75K and 100K16.6%14.9%12.8%
 Income between 100K and 150K21.4%14.6%16.3%
 Income between 150K and 200K7.4%4.1%7.8%
 Income greater than 200K2.2%3.3%9.5%
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 Population By Occupation
 Brookings, ORCouncil Bluffs, IAUnited States
 Management, business, finance5.0%12.4%16.4%
 Engineering, computers, science6.9%4.6%6.5%
 Community, social services0.7%1.8%1.8%
 Legal0.4%0.5%1.2%
 Education, library6.4%4.6%6.2%
 Arts, design, media, sports, entertainment0.0%1.6%2.0%
 Healthcare practitioners and technology4.2%5.5%6.2%
 Healthcare support5.2%3.7%3.3%
 Firefighters, law enforcement10.8%1.9%2.1%
 Food preparation, serving8.6%6.6%5.4%
 Building maintenance2.2%3.6%3.6%
 Personal care2.0%3.7%2.6%
 Sales, office, administrative support21.2%21.4%20.9%
 Farming, fishing, forestry1.7%0.7%0.6%
 Construction, extraction, maintenance/repair12.7%9.7%8.1%
 Production, transportation, material moving11.8%17.5%13.1%

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Reviews for Brookings    29 Reviews

Over 2 years ago

Brookings Oregon is one of the most beautiful places in the world and has perfect weather. I searched for a retirement home, on the beach, for nearly ten years before  More

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Over 3 years ago

Brookings is an interesting place, very nice scenery, and excellent weather. The "locals" who inhabit this place are some of the most ignorant biased people you will  More

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Retired and moved here with my husband in 2020. Best decision we ever made. Amazing weather...even the rainy days are punctuated by crisp, sunny days in the winter. Not  More

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Reviews for Council Bluffs    4 Reviews

It's an okay city. Nothing special really. All the fun things to do and good restaurants are across the river in Omaha. I will say CB has some pretty good recreational  More

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Over 8 years ago

Quietly over the years this community has taken untold amounts of riverfront casino tax dollars and converted them into hundreds and hundreds of community improvement  More

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Over 14 years ago

here in council bluffs iowa, we have low crime rate. There have been an increase in shopping areas in the last 2 years and lots of new resturants and three casinos. It  More

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ZIPS IN BROOKINGS, OREGON
97415
ZIPS IN COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA
51503 51501

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