Circle Pines is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 4,663 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Circle Pines is the 149th largest community in Minnesota.

Circle Pines is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Circle Pines is a city of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Circle Pines who work in office and administrative support jobs (19.75%), management occupations (13.02%), and sales jobs (9.88%).

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

In addition, Circle Pines 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, Circle Pines 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, Circle Pines really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Circle Pines 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.

Circle Pines 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.

Circle Pines Information and Demographics

The education level of Circle Pines citizens is substantially higher than the average US city or town, as 31.46% of adults in Circle Pines have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Circle Pines in 2000 was $25,438, which is wealthy relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $101,752 for a family of four. However, Circle Pines contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Circle Pines is English.