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Gilbert, MN

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Overview


Gilbert is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 1,671 people and just one neighborhood, Gilbert is the 351st largest community in Minnesota. Gilbert has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Gilbert is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Gilbert is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gilbert who work in office and administrative support (11.48%), sales jobs (11.48%), and food service (9.23%).

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

Gilbert 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 citizens of Gilbert are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.76% of adults in Gilbert have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Gilbert in 2018 was $30,090, 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 $120,360 for a family of four. However, Gilbert contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Gilbert home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gilbert residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Gilbert include German, Finnish, Norwegian, English, and Irish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Gilbert, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 13.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 4.1% have Croatian 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 Gilbert are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.5% 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, 30.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.9%), and 19.8% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.3%).

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 Gilbert, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.7%). There are also a number of people of Finnish ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (11.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (11.0%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (9.7%), 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 (44.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (87.1%) 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 (7.0%) . 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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