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Goodhue, MN

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Overview


Goodhue is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 1,248 people and just one neighborhood, Goodhue is the 384th largest community in Minnesota. Much of the housing stock in Goodhue was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Goodhue economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Goodhue, where the median household income is $80,104.00.

Goodhue real estate is some of the most expensive in Minnesota, although Goodhue house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Goodhue is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Goodhue is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Goodhue who work in healthcare suport services (10.28%), office and administrative support (7.83%), and food service (7.67%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The education level of Goodhue citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.34% of adults 25 and older in Goodhue have a college degree.

The per capita income in Goodhue in 2018 was $29,114, 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 $116,456 for a family of four. However, Goodhue contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Goodhue home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Goodhue residents report their race to be White. Goodhue also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.69% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Goodhue include German, Norwegian, Irish, Swedish, and Greek.

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

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.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.1% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 93.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 18.4% 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 Goodhue are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 74.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.6% of U.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, 34.3% 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 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.8%), and 16.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.3%).

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 Goodhue, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (45.2%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (18.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.9%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (10.6%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.6%), 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 (40.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (78.4%) 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 (7.3%) . 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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