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Arlington, MN

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Overview


Arlington is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,272 people and just one neighborhood, Arlington is the 301st largest community in Minnesota.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Arlington is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.24% of the Arlington workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Arlington is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Arlington who work in healthcare suport services (11.61%), office and administrative support (10.64%), and sales jobs (5.89%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Arlington’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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

Demographics

The education level of Arlington citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.58% of adults 25 and older in Arlington have a college degree.

The per capita income in Arlington in 2018 was $27,321, which is low income relative to Minnesota, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $109,284 for a family of four. However, Arlington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Arlington is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Arlington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Arlington residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Arlington also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.10% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Arlington include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and Swedish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 38 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.2% of America.

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, 56.7% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 6.7% 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 Arlington are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 18.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 37.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.0%), and 16.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (7.9%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Arlington, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (56.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report Mexican roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (6.7%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (85.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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