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Le Sueur, MN

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Overview


Le Sueur is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 4,219 people and just one neighborhood, Le Sueur is the 179th largest community in Minnesota.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Le Sueur is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.39% of the Le Sueur workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Le Sueur is a city of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Le Sueur who work in management occupations (11.14%), office and administrative support (10.00%), and food service (9.48%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The population of Le Sueur overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Le Sueur, 21.98% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Le Sueur in 2018 was $35,484, which is middle income relative to Minnesota, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $141,936 for a family of four. However, Le Sueur contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Le Sueur is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Le Sueur home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Le Sueur residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Le Sueur also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.65% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Le Sueur include German, Irish, Norwegian, English, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Le Sueur is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

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

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 41.5% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 5.4% 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 Le Sueur are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 24.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.9% 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, 35.7% 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 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.7%), and 11.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 85.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (13.6%).

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 Le Sueur, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (41.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report Mexican roots (10.5%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (5.4%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.6%), 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 (34.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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