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Grove City - Cosmos, MN

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Overview


Grove City - Cosmos is a very small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,991 people and just one neighborhood, Grove City - Cosmos is the 240th largest community in Minnesota.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Grove City - Cosmos is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.75% of the Grove City - Cosmos workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Grove City - Cosmos is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Grove City - Cosmos who work in office and administrative support (11.59%), sales jobs (8.22%), and management occupations (8.09%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Grove City - Cosmos with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.80% of adults in Grove City - Cosmos have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Grove City - Cosmos in 2018 was $30,579, 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 $122,316 for a family of four. However, Grove City - Cosmos contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Grove City - Cosmos home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Grove City - Cosmos residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Grove City - Cosmos include German, Norwegian, Swedish, English, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Grove City - Cosmos is English. Other important languages spoken here include West Germanic languages and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 5.7% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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 18 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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, 10.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 16.3% 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 Grove City - Cosmos are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 26.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 34.0% 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 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.5%), and 17.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

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 Grove City - Cosmos, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (43.1%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (16.3%), and residents who report Swedish roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.7%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (5.1%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.6%) 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 (9.4%) . 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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