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La Crescent, MN

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Overview


La Crescent is a somewhat small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 5,344 people and just one neighborhood, La Crescent is the 149th largest community in Minnesota.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, La Crescent isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in La Crescent are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, La Crescent is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in La Crescent who work in office and administrative support (10.99%), sales jobs (10.89%), and healthcare (10.41%).

Also of interest is that La Crescent 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: 12.42% 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, La Crescent is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making La Crescent 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, La Crescent has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, La Crescent’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

Demographics

In terms of college education, La Crescent is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 33.47% of adults in La Crescent have a college degree.

The per capita income in La Crescent in 2018 was $41,132, which is upper middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $164,528 for a family of four. However, La Crescent contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in La Crescent is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and French.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in La Crescent is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in MN, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 89.5% of the neighborhoods in Minnesota. If you are considering retiring to Minnesota, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

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, 22.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 41.2% have German ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.5% 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 97.3% 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 La Crescent are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.9% 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 71.7% 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, 37.8% 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 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.5%), and 12.1% 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 96.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish, French and Italian.

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 La Crescent, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (41.2%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (22.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.3%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (5.3%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.5%), 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 (42.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.5%) 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 (5.8%) . 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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