Cromwell is a tiny city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 246 people and just one neighborhood, Cromwell is the 489th largest community in Minnesota.
Cromwell is a blue-collar town, with 39.39% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Cromwell is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cromwell who work in maintenance occupations (18.18%), personal care services (11.11%), and management occupations (9.09%).
The overall crime rate in Cromwell is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Cromwell has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Cromwell has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cromwell than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cromwell may be for you.
One downside of living in Cromwell is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Cromwell, the average commute to work is 38.48 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small city, Cromwell doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The rate of college-level education in Cromwell is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.22% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cromwell in 2022 was $21,346, which is low income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,384 for a family of four. However, Cromwell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Cromwell home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cromwell residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cromwell include Swedish, German, Finnish, Iranian, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Cromwell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Serbo-Croatian and German/Yiddish.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 9 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 36.5% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 20.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 17.6% have Swedish 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 Cromwell are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.7% 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 51.4% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 31.9% 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 31.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.7%), and 11.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Cromwell, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.5%). There are also a number of people of Finnish ancestry (20.8%), and residents who report Swedish roots (17.6%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (14.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (7.8%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.6%) 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 (12.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.