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Maple Plain, MN

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Overview


Maple Plain is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 836 people and just one neighborhood, Maple Plain is the 338th largest community in Minnesota.

Maple Plain home prices are not only among the most expensive in Minnesota, but Maple Plain real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Maple Plain isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Maple Plain are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Maple Plain is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Maple Plain who work in management occupations (8.90%), business and financial occupations (8.64%), and sales jobs (8.51%).

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

A relatively large number of people in Maple Plain telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.26% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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

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

As is often the case in a small city, Maple Plain doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The education level of Maple Plain citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 33.99% of adults in Maple Plain have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Maple Plain in 2018 was $35,270, which is upper middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $141,080 for a family of four. However, Maple Plain contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Maple Plain is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 Maple Plain, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 9.5% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Minnesota, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Minnesota. In addition to being an excellent choice for active retirees, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for urban sophisticates and highly educated executives.

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, 10.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 15.5% 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 Maple Plain are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 87.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.6% 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 73.4% of America'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, 53.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 19.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (14.5%), and 11.3% 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 (2.7%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Maple Plain, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.0%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (15.5%), and residents who report Swedish roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.1%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.1%), 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 (43.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (72.3%) 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 (7.7%) . 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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