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Lake Crystal, MN

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Overview


Lake Crystal is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,530 people and just one neighborhood, Lake Crystal is the 277th largest community in Minnesota.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Lake Crystal is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lake Crystal is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Crystal who work in office and administrative support (12.90%), management occupations (12.03%), and sales jobs (8.31%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Lake Crystal is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The city’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Lake Crystal’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

Being a small city, Lake Crystal does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Lake Crystal are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 24.03% of adults in Lake Crystal having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Lake Crystal in 2018 was $34,949, which is middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $139,796 for a family of four. However, Lake Crystal contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Lake Crystal home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lake Crystal residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Lake Crystal include German, Norwegian, Irish, English, and European.

The most common language spoken in Lake Crystal is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

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 Lake Crystal, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 45.4% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 12.7% have Norwegian 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 Lake Crystal are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.4% 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, 35.9% 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 29.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.7%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households.

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 Lake Crystal, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (45.4%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (12.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.5%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (4.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (55.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.7%) 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 (10.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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