Overall, McGregor’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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!) McGregor 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. McGregor has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in McGregor than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, McGregor may be for you.
As is often the case in a small city, McGregor doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The rate of college-level education in McGregor is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.86% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in McGregor in 2018 was $20,309, which is low income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $81,236 for a family of four. However, McGregor contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call McGregor home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McGregor residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in McGregor include German, French, Norwegian, Swedish, and Hungarian.
The most common language spoken in McGregor is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Serbo-Croatian.
