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Holdingford, MN

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Overview


Holdingford is a tiny city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 740 people and just one neighborhood, Holdingford is the 420th largest community in Minnesota.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Holdingford isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Holdingford are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Holdingford is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Holdingford who work in office and administrative support (16.75%), management occupations (8.50%), and sales jobs (6.80%).

Also of interest is that Holdingford has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.22% 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

Because of many things, Holdingford is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Holdingford a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The city’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Holdingford has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Holdingford’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

One downside of living in Holdingford, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.84 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Holdingford rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.99% of adults 25 and older in Holdingford have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Holdingford in 2018 was $34,942, which is middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $139,768 for a family of four. However, Holdingford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Holdingford home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Holdingford residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Holdingford include German, Polish, Irish, Norwegian, and French.

The most common language spoken in Holdingford is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.

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.

People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 7.6% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Minnesota. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.

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 36 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.7% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 57.0% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 16.6% have Polish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 21.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Holdingford are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 68.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.4% 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 73.8% of America'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, 34.7% 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.8%), and 15.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households. Some people also speak Polish (21.9%).

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 Holdingford, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (57.0%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (16.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.0%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (4.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (81.5%) 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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