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Solway, MN

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Overview


Solway is a tiny city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 75 people and just one neighborhood, Solway is the 526th largest community in Minnesota.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Solway is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 50.00% of the Solway workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Solway is a city of construction workers and builders, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Solway who work in healthcare (29.31%), office and administrative support (3.45%), and teaching (3.45%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Solway 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, Solway’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 19.21 minutes getting to work every day.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Solway are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 35.71% of adults in Solway have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Solway in 2018 was $31,888, which is lower middle income relative to Minnesota, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $127,552 for a family of four.

Solway is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Solway home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Solway residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Solway include Norwegian, German, Swedish, English, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Solway is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Native American languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 35 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 8.4% have Swedish 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 Solway are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.2% 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 61.0% of America'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, 37.7% 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 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.0%), and 17.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Solway, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.5%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (22.9%), and residents who report Swedish roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (7.7%), along with some English ancestry residents (7.4%), 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 (46.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.1%) 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 (11.2%) . 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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