East Cedar Rapids
The east side runs from MedQuarter and Mound View out toward Marion, which means the dating pool skews toward Mercy and St. Luke's staff, Rockwell Collins engineers, and Coe College adjuncts who walked here. NewBo and Czech Village pull the under-thirty crowd on weekends. Bever Park and Brucemore give you a daytime tell of whether your match actually leaves the house. Expect duplexes with character, parking that assumes you own a truck, and a quiet pact that nobody mentions the 2008 flood unless they brought it up first. Walkable in pockets, drivable everywhere else.
East Cedar Rapids by the numbers
East Cedar Rapids runs male-heavy, about 57% men to 43% women.
Median individual income in East Cedar Rapids is about $43,000.
Iowa registers voters by party, and Linn County is led by independents - about 36% register No Party, edging Democrats (35%), with Republicans (29%) third.
The median renter in East Cedar Rapids pays about $870 a month.
About 3,600 East Cedar Rapids residents ages 22 to 50 are single.
Local date spots
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Paramount Theatre
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Lucky's on 16th
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McGrath Amphitheatre
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Big Grove Brewery & Taproom
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The Shack Tavern
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Lightworks Cafe
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Roasters Coffee House
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Stack Wellness Cafe
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National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
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Craft'd
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Dua Pie
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Midtown Reserve
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Sweet Mercantile
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Spinal Taproom
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The Bar
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Insomnia Cookies
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BarTini's
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