Maple Lake is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,192 people and just one neighborhood, Maple Lake is the 306th largest community in Minnesota.
Unlike some cities, Maple Lake isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Maple Lake are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Maple Lake is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Maple Lake who work in sales jobs (13.50%), office and administrative support (12.18%), and management occupations (8.48%).
In terms of college education, the citizens of Maple Lake rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.17% of adults 25 and older in Maple Lake 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 Maple Lake in 2018 was $31,466, which is middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $125,864 for a family of four. However, Maple Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Maple Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Maple Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Maple Lake include German, Irish, Swedish, Polish, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Maple Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 7.2% have Swedish ancestry.
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 Maple Lake are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.6% 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, 30.6% 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 30.0% 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 15.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.8%).
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 Maple Lake, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.1%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (7.8%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (7.2%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.7%) 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 (7.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.