East Bethel is a somewhat small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 10,941 people and two constituent neighborhoods, East Bethel is the 84th largest community in Minnesota.

East Bethel is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, East Bethel is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in East Bethel who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.07%), management occupations (8.81%), and sales jobs (7.53%).

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

Because of many things, East Bethel is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making East Bethel 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 city's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, East Bethel has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, East Bethel's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

One downside of living in East Bethel, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.91 minutes every day commuting to work.

East Bethel is a small city, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around East Bethel, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 99.18% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

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

East Bethel Information and Demographics

The percentage of adults in East Bethel with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 14.96% for all communities. 13.88% of adults in East Bethel have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in East Bethel in 2000 was $21,087, which is upper middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $84,348 for a family of four. However, East Bethel contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in East Bethel is English.