Shakopee is a medium-sized city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 20,499 people and five constituent neighborhoods, Shakopee is the 43rd largest community in Minnesota.

Shakopee is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Shakopee is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shakopee who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.72%), sales jobs (10.54%), and management occupations (8.68%).

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

For most residents of Shakopee, getting to work requires a car. In fact, 97% of people in Shakopee drive alone to work on most days, making Shakopee a very car-oriented city. In general, car-oriented communities tend to emphasize streets, highways, and ease of parking, often to the detriment of walkability. Strip centers are a feature of Shakopee's landscape.

Shakopee 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.

Shakopee Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Shakopee is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 25.78% of adults in Shakopee have a college degree.

The per capita income in Shakopee in 2000 was $25,128, which is wealthy relative to Minnesota, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,512 for a family of four. However, Shakopee contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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