Chanhassen is a medium-sized city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 20,329 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Chanhassen is the 44th largest community in Minnesota.

Chanhassen is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 88.36% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Chanhassen is a city of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Chanhassen who work in management occupations (18.89%), sales jobs (16.20%), and office and administrative support jobs (11.12%).

Also of interest is that Chanhassen has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In addition, Chanhassen is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Chanhassen is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Chanhassen really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Chanhassen perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Residents of Chanhassen by-and-large get to work each day by driving: 97.1% use their own cars for their daily commute, making it a very car-oriented city. While Chanhassen may be a convenient place for driving around town, the negative aspect of this is that places that are suitable for walking or bicycling to and from work or stores may be few and far between. In general, car-oriented communities emphasize roads and convenience of driving, but not have a lot of walking-friendly areas to get from home to work, and tend not to have a lot of public transportation options.

As is often the case in a small city, Chanhassen doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Chanhassen Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Chanhassen, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Chanhassen is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 53.10% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Chanhassen in 2000 was $36,008, which is wealthy relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $144,032 for a family of four. However, Chanhassen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Chanhassen home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Chanhassen is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Chanhassen include German, Norwegian, Irish, Swedish, English, Italian, Polish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Chanhassen is English. Some people also speak Spanish.