Harris is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 1,139 people and two associated neighborhoods, Harris is the 390th largest community in Minnesota.When you are in Harris, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.19% of Harris’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Harris is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Harris who work in management occupations (11.29%), office and administrative support (10.47%), and healthcare suport services (7.39%). Also of interest is that Harris has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.28% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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. 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!) Harris 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. Harris has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Harris than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Harris may be for you. One downside of living in Harris is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Harris, the average commute to work is 38.92 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. As is often the case in a small city, Harris doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The citizens of Harris are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.75% of adults in Harris have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Harris in 2022 was $39,041, which is middle income relative to Minnesota, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $156,164 for a family of four. However, Harris contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Harris is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Harris home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Harris residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Harris include German, Swedish, English, Irish, and Norwegian. The most common language spoken in Harris is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
