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Hawley - Ulen, MN

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Overview


Hawley - Ulen is a somewhat small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 5,977 people and just one neighborhood, Hawley - Ulen is the 137th largest community in Minnesota.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Hawley - Ulen isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Hawley - Ulen are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Hawley - Ulen is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hawley - Ulen who work in management occupations (13.30%), office and administrative support (10.34%), and healthcare (10.15%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.56% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Hawley - Ulen 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 town’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, Hawley - Ulen’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Hawley - Ulen is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.06% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Hawley - Ulen in 2018 was $39,594, which is upper middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $158,376 for a family of four. However, Hawley - Ulen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Hawley - Ulen is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 17 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.3% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 38.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 41.0% have German 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 Hawley - Ulen are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.8% 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, 43.5% 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 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.3%), and 15.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households.

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 Hawley - Ulen, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (41.0%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (38.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.3%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (6.1%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.0%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (78.1%) 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 (9.8%) . 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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