Native Americans in : 2020

NOVEMBER 2020

The first American Indian Day was celebrated in May 1916 in New York. In 1990, President STATE DATA CENTER George H.W. Bush signed a joint congressional resolution designating November 1990 as O F I O W A — “National American Indian Heritage Month.” Similar proclamations have been issued every A PROGRAM OF THE year since 1994. STATE LIBRARY OF IOWA 17,060 The estimated number of Families and Children Native Americans and Alaska Natives in Iowa in 2,805 10.4% 2019. The U.S. Census The number of American Percentage of American Bureau estimates a 89.8% Indian and Alaska native Indian and Alaska Native increase in population families in 2019 who population under age 5 in between 2000 and 2019. reside in Iowa. 2019. This compares to 6.2 percent for the state of Iowa. 11,876 46.0% Source: 2019 Annual Population Estimates The projected Native Percentage of American American non Hispanic Indian and Alaska Native population of Iowa in married-couple families 40.5 2050. According to Woods with related children under & Pool Economics Inc., 18 years of age. This The median age of Native Americans will compares to 39.3% for the Iowa’s American constitute 0.4 percent of state of Iowa. Indian and Alaska Native population in the states total population Source: 2014-2018 American on that date. Community Survey 2019. The median age for the state was 38.5.

1,058 Population in the Sac and Fox/ American Indian Area according to the 2014- 2018 American Community Survey.

P A G E 2 Education 1,957 82.0% 281 The number of Native The percentage of Iowa Number of Iowa American Americans enrolled in the American Indian and Alaska Indian and Alaska Natives state’s elementary and high Natives age 25 and over, 25 years and older with an schools during the 2019- who had at least a high advanced degree in 2019. 2020 school year. school education in 2019. (e.g., master’s, professional, For the state of Iowa it was doctorate.) 92.6%. -23.8% Percent decrease in Native American enrollment 8.3% between the 1999-2000 The percentage of Iowa school year and 2019-2020. American Indian and Alaska Source: Iowa Department of Natives age 25 and over, Education with a bachelor’s degree or higher in 2019. In Iowa it was 29.3%.

Migration Serving our Nation 53.8% 83.0% The percentage of The percentage of 683 American Indians and American Indians and Alaska Natives in 2019 Alaska Natives in 2019 The number of Iowa American who were born in Iowa. who lived in the same Indian and Alaska Native This compares to 69.7% house last year. For the veterans of the U.S. armed of the total population in entire state of Iowa, that forces in 2019. Iowa who were born in percentage was 86.1%. the state.

Housing 52.4% 72.4% The percentage in Iowa of The percentage of households with a American Indians and householder who is Alaska Natives in 2019 who American Indian and live in an urban area. This Alaska Native in Iowa who compares with 64.3% for own their home in 2019. the state of Iowa. This compares with 70.5% for the state of Iowa.

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Occupation Businesses Source: 2012-2016 American Community Survey

28.9% and Jobs The percentage of Iowa 1,057 American Indian and Alaska Natives in The number of American Indian– service occupations in 2019. and Alaska Native-owed firms in 2012

65.2% 22.1% The percent increase in The percent in 2019 of Iowa American Indian– and Alaska American and Alaska natives in Native-owed firms between 2002 the production, transportation, and 2012. and material moving Source: Survey of Business Owners occupations. 8.8% 1,232 The unemployment rate for Iowa American Indian and Alaska Iowa American Indian and Alaska Natives in Natives in 2019. The Iowa management, business, science and arts unemployment rate at that time occupations in 2019. was 4.9%.

886 The number of Iowa American Indian and Alaska Disability Natives in sales and services occupations in 2019. 24.0%

The percent of Native Americans in Iowa with a disability in 2019. The percentage of all Iowans with a disability is 11.8%. Income, poverty, and health insurance $26,255 $27,589 18.1% The median income of Iowa The median income of Iowa The percent of the Iowa American Indian and American Indian and American Indian and Alaska Natives households Alaska Native families in Alaska Native population in 2019. The median 2019. The median family with no health insurance 2.81 household income for the income for the state was coverage in 2019. The state was $61,689. $78.152. corresponding rate for all The average household Iowa is 5.0% size for American Indian and Alaska Native $16,589 31.7% households in Iowa. The The per capita income of The poverty rate for the average household size Iowa American Indian and Iowa American Indian and for the state of Iowa is Alaska Natives in 2019. Alaska Native population in 2.4. The per capita income for 2019. The corresponding the state was $33,107. rate for Iowa is 11.2%

STATE DATA C E N T E R O F Counties and cities I O W A A PROGRAM OF 3,034 41.4% 1,758 T H E S T A T E The number of American In 2019, over one third The number of Indian and Alaska of the total American American Indian and LIBRARY OF Natives in Woodbury Indian and Alaska Alaska Natives in IOWA County in 2019, making Native population live in City making it largest it largest population of Woodbury, Polk, Tama, population of American Main Library American Indian and and Pottawattamie Indian and Alaska Miller Building Alaska Natives in any counties. Natives in any city in Iowa county. 1112 E Grand Ave Iowa. Des Moines, Iowa 50319 8.6% Phone: 800-248-4483 53.8% The percent of total 39.8% E-mail: [email protected] population in Tama Over one-half of the County who are The percentage of growth in Iowa’s Native American Indian and Iowa’s total American American population Alaska Natives in 2019. Indian and Alaska We’re on the web! from 2000-2019 The next county with Natives population living occurred in ten counties: high percentages of in 8cities: Sioux City, www.iowadatacenter.org , Dallas, American Indian and Des Moines, Davenport, Johnson, Linn, Alaska Natives is Waterloo, Cedar Plymouth, Polk, Woodbury with 2.9%. Rapids, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Tama, Tama, and Iowa City.

Wapello, and Woodbury. Source: 2014-2018 American Community Survey

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Data Source (unless otherwise noted) : U.S. Census Bureau, 2019 American Community Survey 2019 Population estimates Photos by the U.S. Census Bureau