Madelia is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,375 people and just one neighborhood, Madelia is the 286th largest community in Minnesota. Madelia has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
Madelia is a blue-collar town, with 40.21% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Madelia is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Madelia who work in office and administrative support (12.17%), sales jobs (10.48%), and teaching (7.57%).
The percentage of adults in Madelia who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.88% of the adults in Madelia have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Madelia in 2022 was $33,875, which is lower middle income relative to Minnesota, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $135,500 for a family of four. However, Madelia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Madelia is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Madelia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Madelia residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Madelia also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 33.99% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Madelia include German, Norwegian, Irish, Swedish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Madelia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Indo-European.
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.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.8% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 24 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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, 18.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 6.6% 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 Madelia are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.8% of U.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, 33.2% 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 30.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.8%), and 14.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 83.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (15.6%).
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 Madelia, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.2%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (18.7%), and residents who report Mexican roots (17.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.4%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (6.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.8%) 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 (9.4%) and 6.2% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.