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Willernie, MN

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Overview


Willernie is a tiny city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 519 people and just one neighborhood, Willernie is the 449th largest community in Minnesota. Willernie has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Willernie home prices are not only among the most expensive in Minnesota, but Willernie real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Willernie is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Willernie is a city of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Willernie who work in management occupations (21.62%), office and administrative support (18.47%), and business and financial occupations (9.46%).

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

Of important note, Willernie is also a city of artists. Willernie has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Willernie’s character.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.45% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Willernie 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. Willernie has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Willernie than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Willernie may be for you.

Willernie is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The education level of Willernie citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 32.44% of adults in Willernie have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Willernie in 2018 was $38,110, which is upper middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $152,440 for a family of four.

The people who call Willernie home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Willernie residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Willernie include German, Norwegian, French, Czech, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Willernie is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 10.9% have Norwegian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Willernie are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 81.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.7% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 68.8% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 57.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 16.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.5%), and 11.2% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.0%).

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 Willernie, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (21.9%), and residents who report Swedish roots (12.7%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (10.9%), along with some English ancestry residents (7.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (68.9%) 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 (5.3%) . 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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