Amboy - Good Thunder is a very small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,601 people and just one neighborhood, Amboy - Good Thunder is the 273rd largest community in Minnesota. Much of the housing stock in Amboy - Good Thunder was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Amboy - Good Thunder is a blue-collar town, with 36.45% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Amboy - Good Thunder is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Amboy - Good Thunder who work in management occupations (16.41%), office and administrative support (10.82%), and sales jobs (6.70%).
A relatively large number of people in Amboy - Good Thunder telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.36% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Because of many things, Amboy - Good Thunder is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Amboy - Good Thunder a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Amboy - Good Thunder has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Amboy - Good Thunder’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
Amboy - Good Thunder is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Amboy - Good Thunder who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.01% of the adults in Amboy - Good Thunder have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Amboy - Good Thunder in 2022 was $39,328, which is upper middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $157,312 for a family of four. However, Amboy - Good Thunder contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Amboy - Good Thunder home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Amboy - Good Thunder residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Amboy - Good Thunder include German, Norwegian, English, Irish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Amboy - Good Thunder is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.0% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 48.0% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 12.9% have Norwegian ancestry.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Amboy - Good Thunder are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.9% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 64.9% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 32.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 32.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.6%), and 15.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Amboy - Good Thunder, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (48.0%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (12.9%), and residents who report English roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.1%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (5.6%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (81.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (7.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.