Quality of life in Des Moines
Des Moines, Iowa, is characterized by a clean environment. According to our city rankings, this is a good place to live with high ratings in housing, business freedom and safety.
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Des Moines, Iowa, is characterized by a clean environment. According to our city rankings, this is a good place to live with high ratings in housing, business freedom and safety.
Large apartment | $1300.00 |
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Medium apartment | $1000.00 |
Rent index [score] | 0.66 |
Small apartment | $800.00 |
5km taxi ride | $7.30 |
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A Cappuccino | $4.20 |
A beer | $1.90 |
A kilogram of Apples | $3.80 |
Bread | $0.66 |
Inflation [score] | 0.63 |
Lunch | $9.90 |
Monthly fitness club membership | $35.00 |
Monthly public transport | $51.00 |
Movie ticket | $9.70 |
Price of a meal at a restaurant | $61.48 |
Average monthly increase in number of startups [score] | 0.10 |
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Coworking spaces [score] | 0.45 |
Coworking spaces on WorkFrom.co | 12 |
Meetups [score] | 0.17 |
Meetups groups | 30 |
Meetups members | 5902 |
Number of investors | 21 |
Number of startup events in the last 12 months | 296 |
Number of upcoming meetup events | 26 |
Startup climate scene [score] | 0.31 |
Startup events | 175 |
Startup events [score] | 0.76 |
Startups [score] | 0.48 |
Total number of startups | 83 |
Venture capital [score] | 0.18 |
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Airport hub | 17 |
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Airport hub [score] | 0.16 |
Intercity train connectivity [score] | 0.12 |
Human city page | http://cities.human.co/details/United_States/Des_Moines |
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Traffic handling [score] | 0.83 |
Business freedom | 84.70 |
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Business freedom [score] | 0.86 |
Freedom from corruption | 74.00 |
Freedom from corruption [score] | 0.79 |
Lack of labor restrictions | 91.40 |
Lack of labor restrictions [score] | 1.00 |
Time to open a business | 5.60 |
Time to open a business [score] | 0.95 |
Crime rate [score] | 0.68 |
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Gun-related deaths per 100,000 residents per year | 8 |
Guns per 100 residents | 52 |
Lack of gun related deaths [score] | 0.78 |
Lack of guns [score] | 0.71 |
Lack of guns and gun-related deaths [score] | 0.75 |
Healthcare expenditure [score] | 0.99 |
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Healthcare quality [score] | 0.90 |
Life expectancy (years) | 79.28 |
Life expectancy [score] | 0.76 |
Country mean scores in PISA math test | 478.04 |
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Country mean scores in PISA reading test | 497.58 |
Country mean scores in PISA science test | 497.41 |
PISA math ranking (high school) | 30 |
PISA ranking | 24 |
PISA ranking (high school) [score] | 0.72 |
PISA reading (high school) | 16 |
PISA science (high school) | 19 |
Percent of happy students | 0.77 |
Percent of low performers in PISA math test | 0.26 |
Percent of low performers in PISA reading test | 0.17 |
Percent of low performers in PISA science test | 0.18 |
Percent of top performers in PISA math test | 0.09 |
Percent of top performers in PISA reading test | 0.08 |
Percent of top performers in PISA science test | 0.07 |
Air quality [score] | 1.00 |
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Cleanliness [score] | 1.00 |
Drinking water quality [score] | 0.81 |
Urban greenery [score] | 0.67 |
Currency exchange rate per US dollar for urban area | 1.00 |
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Currency for urban area | USD |
GDP growth rate | 0.02 |
GDP growth rate [score] | 0.43 |
GDP per capita | $54596.65 |
GDP per capita [score] | 0.87 |
Effective company profit tax rate on payouts as dividends [score] | 0.54 |
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Income tax level [score] | 0.33 |
Profit tax (% of profit) | 0.44 |
Time overhead to file company taxes | 175 |
VAT (Sales Tax) | 0.06 |
Download speed (Mbps) | 36.56 |
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Internet access (download) [score] | 0.53 |
Internet access (upload) [score] | 0.61 |
Upload speed (Mbps) | 16.17 |
Art galleries | 91 |
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Art galleries [score] | 0.71 |
Cinemas | 54 |
Cinemas [score] | 0.60 |
Comedy clubs | 29 |
Comedy clubs [score] | 0.80 |
Concert venues | 111 |
Concerts [score] | 0.76 |
Historical sites | 62 |
Historical sites [score] | 0.61 |
Museums | 27 |
Museums [score] | 0.60 |
Performing art venues | 122 |
Performing arts [score] | 0.66 |
Sport venues | 43 |
Sports [score] | 0.70 |
Zoos | 11 |
Zoos [score] | 0.83 |
LGBT Equality Index | 93.13 |
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LGBT Equality Index [score] | 0.96 |
LGBT adoption rights | ✔ Legal |
LGBT age of consent | ✔ Equal |
LGBT blood donation regulations | ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral) |
LGBT conversion therapy regulations | Ambiguous |
LGBT discrimination legality | ✔ Illegal |
LGBT employment discrimination legality | ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity |
LGBT gender changing rights | ✔ Legal, but requires surgery |
LGBT homosexuality rights | ✔ Legal |
LGBT housing discrimination legality | ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity |
LGBT marriage rights | ✔ Legal |
Tolerance towards minorities [score] | 0.74 |
Urban area elevation (meters) | 266.00 |
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Water access [score] | 0.66 |
Costs of living in Des Moines are in the 92nd place of all 248 Teleport cities. Sign up for free to get access to our cost of living index and use our international cost of living calculator to do cost comparison by city.
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Software Engineer salaries in Des Moines are above average. For this job type, Des Moines ranks 74th for salaries among 265 cities. Get access to our salary comparison calculator by signing up. Compare salaries city by city with our free salary wizard and convert your own salary to a local salary in Des Moines.
The overall crime rate puts Des Moines in position 94 of 266 Teleport Cities in a ranking for the safest cities.
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Des Moines, capital of Iowa, is in the western region of the American Midwest.
Des Moines is the largest city in Iowa and the annual site of the Iowa State Fair. Because of Iowa's early presidential caucus date, the city is also a hotbed of political dreams and discourse every four years when presidential candidates tour the state and have multiple debates within the city.
The meaning of 'Des Moines' itself is not clear as local Native Americans, the Moingona, had already been using a term (which meant 'river of the mounds') due to the number of burial mounds which were popular in the area. French Trappist Monks (Moines de la Trappe) called their settlement areas at the mouth of the Des Moines River 'La Riviere des Moines' which, in English, translates to 'the river of the monks.' "De Moyn," which means "middle," may have been used on the map of explorer Jacques Marquette to help others locate the Des Moines River-area (equidistant between the larger Mississippi and Missouri rivers). "Des Moines," today pronounced "duh MOIN," is located at the junction of the Des Moines River and the Raccoon River.
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