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Elbow Lake - Ashby is a very small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 3,345 people and just one neighborhood, Elbow Lake - Ashby is the 222nd largest community in Minnesota.
Occupations and Workforce
Elbow Lake - Ashby is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Elbow Lake - Ashby is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Elbow Lake - Ashby who work in sales jobs (12.10%), management occupations (10.93%), and office and administrative support (10.21%).
A relatively large number of people in Elbow Lake - Ashby telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.19% 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.
Setting & Lifestyle
Because of many things, Elbow Lake - Ashby is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Elbow Lake - Ashby 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, Elbow Lake - Ashby has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Elbow Lake - Ashby’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
Demographics
The education level of Elbow Lake - Ashby citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.72% of adults 25 and older in Elbow Lake - Ashby have a college degree.
The per capita income in Elbow Lake - Ashby in 2022 was $38,013, which is upper middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $152,052 for a family of four. However, Elbow Lake - Ashby contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Elbow Lake - Ashby home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Elbow Lake - Ashby residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Elbow Lake - Ashby include German, Norwegian, Swedish, Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Elbow Lake - Ashby is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Elbow Lake - Ashby, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Real Estate
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 17 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.5% of America.
People
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Elbow Lake - Ashby is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in MN, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 87.9% of the neighborhoods in Minnesota. If you are considering retiring to Minnesota, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 36.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 9.2% have Swedish ancestry.
The Neighbors
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Elbow Lake - Ashby are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 18.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 30.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.8%), and 15.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.3%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Elbow Lake - Ashby, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.1%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (36.6%), and residents who report Swedish roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.7%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.2%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.9%) 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 (6.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
